20 Favourite Books from my 20s

My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #7: Social Media

Do authors need to be on social media? Publishers say yes, but when it comes to actual data that proves it sells books,…

How to Become a Writer is a series about the many and varied steps (and missteps) people take on the way to writing and publishing a…

My work in progress Monkey See features a super-intelligent Spider Monkey named Chacho. Writing the character of Chacho has made me think a lot…

Image from gregferro.com My posts on author earnings are among the most popular on my blog, showing there is a great deal of…

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

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…