What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #6: Feelings

Image: Stella Prize Winners Fiona Wright & Emily Bitto, feeling pretty darn good! Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by…

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #5: Festivals

This is the fifth part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…

If you read my last Journey to a Book post, you’ll know that based on feedback from the agent who read Monkey See, (which…

The fourth issue on our series for expectant writers is all about literary awards: how to get your book nominated, and how being…

This is the third part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…

Fabulous launch parties for which publishers foot the bill seem to be less and less common nowadays. When faced with covering the cost themselves,…

This list of my favourite books from my teenage years is inspired by Kate Forsyth, who celebrated her 50th birthday by writing a…

This week myself and fellow author Jane Rawson started a new blog series, in which we dish the dirt on what happens just before,…

For most of last year I worked on a structural edit of my novel Monkey See, based on some very detailed and insightful feedback from…