Doris Lessing: Fiction & Truth

I came across this quote in Doris Lessing’s autobiography. I’m not sure if it’s completely true but I find it interesting to contemplate….

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…

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…