We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover.
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
My academy did a great job of getting my story out there for people to hear about me, get interested and wanted to fund me.
Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
I never get used to the red carpets and premieres, to be honest, but when you're walking down the red carpet promoting stories such as 'Mabo,' it means everything to me.
Every step is basically a word, especially with musical theatre, because you're not doing it for dance's sake, you're promoting a story - and, more than that, a moral. You're propelling a story.
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
