Glenice Whitting

Glenice Whitting is an Australian author and playwright and has published two novels. Three years as an on-line editor and columnist at suite101.com introduced her to web writing and resulted in an ebook 'Inspiring Women'. Glenice’s play 'Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow' was produced during the Fertile Ground New Play Festival. Her published works include biographies, reviews, numerous short stories and two novels.

Her latest novel, Something Missing, published by MadeGlobal Publishing is about two countries, two women and lies that lead to truth. She completed the journey from VCE to PhD when she gained her Doctorate of Philosophy (Writing) from Swinburne University in 2013. Along the way she was awarded entry into the Golden Key International Honour Society for academic excellence. Glenice’s blog 'Writers and Their Journey' can be found at https://glenicewhitting.wordpress.com

Something Missing. Two women, two countries. Serendipity. Life. Friendship.

Diane, an uneducated young Australian mother, meets Maggie, a sophisticated American poet in a chance encounter. Everything, from age, class and even nationality seems to separate them, yet all is not quite as it seems. Maggie is grieving for her eldest daughter and trapped in a marriage involving infidelity and rape. Diane unconsciously yearns for the same opportunity of an education given to her brother which was denied her. Their lives draw them to connect. This is a story of two unfulfilled women finding each other when they needed it most. Their pen-friendship will change them forever. –

She was a hairdresser for many years before she became a mature age student. It was during an English Literature Fiction Writing course that her great midlife adventure began. Rummaging through an old cardboard shoebox in the family home she found a pile of postcards dating back to the 19th century, many of them written in Old High German. The translated greetings from abroad introduced the hairdresser to her long hidden German heritage and started her on a life changing journey. She fell in love with the craft of writing and decided to pursue a writing career. Her Australian/German novel, Pickle to Pie, was short -listed for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. It co-won the Ilura Press International Fiction Quest and was launched during The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival.

'Pickle to Pie' was inspired by a box of German postcards dating back to the 19th century. Having them translated opened a window onto the German side of my previously hidden cultural heritage. Colourful, funny, sad and challenging it evokes the German immigrant experience in Australia during the last century