How to Become a Writer: Emma Viskic
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…
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Musings on the writing process and the writing life, from myself and other authors.
How Much Do Writers Earn #2
Image from gregferro.com My posts on author earnings are among the most popular on my blog, showing there is a great deal of…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #6: Feelings
Image: Stella Prize Winners Clare Wright & Emily Bitto, feeling pretty darn good! Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by…
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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…
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The Plague: Journey to a Book #1 – Freefall Writing a First Draft
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…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #4: Prizes
The fourth issue on our series for expectant writers is all about literary awards: how to get your book nominated, and how being…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #3: Publicity
This is the third part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book: (Part 2) Book Launches
Fabulous launch parties for which publishers foot the bill seem to be less and less common nowadays. When faced with covering the cost themselves,…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book: (Part 1) Getting a Blurb
This week myself and fellow author Jane Rawson started a new blog series, in which we dish the dirt on what happens just before,…
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