CHRISTINE M. KNIGHT

Set between 1988-1990, In and Out of Step’s thesis picks-up on a period of significant change in Australian social and cultural history which mirror the wider western world. The novel reflects the popular perceptions of the era and explores reaction to changing roles and values, the relationship between generations, gender dynamics, and power in society through contrasting character perspectives.

'Sunshine Days' is the most recent of my songs to be released. It features Rachel Thorne (vocals) and Milo G (performer, arranger and producer). As with all of my music, I am the composer and executive producer. Although I am a musician, I no longer perform publicly but use talented session musicians.

'Masque' is a duet between charismatic rock star, Rick Brody, and singing sensation Nikki Mills (the Girl from Oz). They are fictional characters in my novel, ‘Song Bird’, which is on sale through Amazon, Book Depository, and other online booksellers as are my other novels' 'Life Song' and 'In and Out of Step' - in paperback and eBook

'Take it Off' is a song developed by Christine M Knight for her novel 'SONG BIRD'. In that novel, the lyrics and music are the outcome of a collaboration between Nikki Mills (the protagonist) and Rick Brody (rock star). When the song was produced, the song title changed to 'Masque'. The word masque refers to the

As part of the writing process for 'SONG BIRD', I write lyrics that focus on key character relationships. 'The Flame’ deals with one of those relationships. The scene below is from the novel.

‘Life Song’ grew out of concerns and questions about life that the women and men I interviewed shared. Many women and men had questions about plotting a course through life in uncharted territory and about what made life worth living, what gave it meaning.

When I finally committed to actually writing fiction rather planning to do it, I envisaged a whole world with a community of characters whose lives intersected and diverged as the issues and concerns of their respective lives and the times brought them in and out of contact.

I drew on the Kiama landscape in the creation of the fictional coastal town of Keimera which features in both In and Out of Step and Life Song. That fictional landscape also draws on the NSW towns of Camden, Goulburn, and Bungendore. My maternal family have also lived in Kiama for over thirty four years.

I am a storyteller. I am also a portrait and landscape painter. My preferred media is not oil or watercolours but words. My pictures capture the world that I know and form a backdrop to the stories I tell.