How Writers Earn Money #1: Advances
Welcome to the first post in my new series How Writers Earn Money, an area shrouded in mystery! I’ll be sharing my own…
Read More
Recent Posts
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #6: Feelings
Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by a maelstrom of feelings. There is frustration that you can’t get an agent…
Read More
How to Become a Writer: Ryan O’Neill
My guest on this edition of How to Become a Writer* is the inimitable Ryan O’Neill, who found his way to writing via…
Read More
Top 10 Books of 2020
Happy new year! In no particular order, these were my favourite reads from the last 12 months (not necessarily published in 2020). I…
Read More
How to Become a Writer: Imbi Neeme
Imbi Neeme is a recovering blogger, impending novelist and compulsive short story writer. Her manuscript The Spill was awarded the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize….
Read More
How to Become a Writer: Laura Elvery
Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. Her work has been published in Overland, Griffith…
Read More
Robert Dessaix on Reading
Reading is like shaking the kaleidoscope of who you are: the shards in there are the same old shards, but something reconfigures them….
Read More
How to Become a Writer: Mark Simpson
This series is based on an early short-story by Lorrie Moore called ‘How to Become a Writer’, a wry account of all the seemingly random events, choices and…
Read More
Big Sky Festival 2020
In early October I had the delight and privilege of taking part in Geraldton’s Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival. Before the formal…
Read More
How to Become a Writer: Kate Mildenhall
Kate Mildenhall is a writer and teacher. Her debut novel, Skylarking, was named in Readings Top Ten Fiction Books of 2016 and longlisted…
Read More
How Writers Earn Money: My 2020 EOFY Report
Welcome back to How Writers Earn Money, in which I pull back the curtains and reveal closely-guarded secrets about writers’ incomes. I believe it’s better to have honest conversations about the realities of the incredibly low incomes most writers earn, as well as exploring other avenues for earning income beyond advances and royalties. I share real figures, facts and tips and stories from writers about how they manage to pay the bills while writing.
Read More
How to Become a Writer: Meg Mundell
Meg Mundell is a Melbourne-based author, researcher and journalist. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Eureka Street,…
Read More
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Cover Design
So your first book has been accepted for publication: congratulations! In the next few months your face will be all over television and…
Read More