• Life of the Mind

    Song of the Curlew

    In early 2017, I published a young adult novel – Pride – under my YA moniker of ‘Lazaros Zigomanis’. This is actually the name I was baptised under. To provide some background, it was 2002. I ran a football website and the season had just finished. Collingwood had lost the grand final (there’s a shock), and I needed content for the off-season so I could maintain some readership. Therefore, I decided to serialise a story, and since my website was football-centric, I decided it was going to be a football story. I’d already had this vague idea for about ten years, but it was originally going to be based in…

  • Books

    Pride (Hardback)

    Title: Pride (as Lazaros Zigomanis) Publisher: Busybird Publishing Publication Date: 20 July 2017 Category: Young Adult Fiction Format: Hardback (234x156mm, 292 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-925585-24-7 Hardback: 978-1-925585-89-6 Ebook: 978-1-925585-25-4 Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them. Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life – the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, and drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local who’s smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can’t be too late, can it? There’s the Ravens, at least, although the team’s little more than battlers.…