What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #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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Top 10 Books I Loved as a Teenager
This list of my favourite books from my teenage years is inspired by Kate Forsyth, who celebrated her 50th birthday by writing a…
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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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Monkey See: Journey to a Book (Part 3) – Structural Edit & Back-Story
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…
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How to Become a Writer: Jane Rawson
Welcome to How to Become a Writer, a series on the many and varied steps (and missteps) people take on the way to writing and publishing…
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Top 10 Books of 2016
Four of my favourite books this year have been Australian, five from the US and one from the UK. Seven have been by…
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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2016
The ten most visited posts on my blog in 2016: 10 This year my writing energies have been devoted to toiling away at…
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On Writing and Depression
My first piece of creative non-fiction, and the first thing I have published about the relationship between writing and depression, for Nadia King’s blog.
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Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2016
I was lucky enough to spend the last week of October in Bali, for the fourteenth annual Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. Bali truly…
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