Story Arcs and the Art of Writing a Page-Turner

Lately, I’ve become interested in the concept of ‘story arcs’. An arc is essentially, the journey from the opening of a story to…

Whiskey & Charlie: Journey to a Book (Launch)

Time-lapse video of theNovember 2012 Australian launch of my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (published in the US as Whiskey & Charlie) at one of…

The story so far… I wrote a book. Some smart people told me how to make it better, and I did. Four years…

At a certain point in the writing of a novel, the time comes to show the work to someone else. It’s a frightening…

What a crazy little thing a book is. It begins as an idea in one person’s mind, and eventually ends up on a…

aungkyawthein: The Ark – final image set (Doomsday Bunker project based on a novel called “The Ark” by Annabel Smith.)

Reading the first draft of my new novel The Ark, my friend Robyn brought my attention to my frequent use of idiom. In…

Last week in The Guardian, Rick Gekoski published an article on the importance of editing, in response to the revelation that esteemed publisher…

I’m currently in the process of editing my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot for publication. It’s always a fascinating process having new eyes reading…

I wrote my first two novels in longhand, with old-fashioned pencils on scrap paper. But The Arkwas a book of digital communications. It…