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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Book: Cover Design

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Cover Design

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Annabel Smith

So your first book has been accepted for publication: congratulations! In the next few months your face will be all over television and…

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How Writers Earn Money: Podcast

How Writers Earn Money: Podcast

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Annabel Smith

If you like listening more than reading, my recent talk on How Writers Earn Money at the WA Writing & Publishing Industry Forum…

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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Book: Being Edited

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Being Edited

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Annabel Smith

Soon after you sign a contract with a publisher, the editing process begins. A recent poll revealed that being edited is one of…

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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Book #7: Social Media

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #7: Social Media

Posted on July 27, 2017June 1, 2018 by Annabel Smith

Do authors need to be on social media? Publishers say yes, but when it comes to actual data that proves it sells books,…

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Writers & Other Animals: Eliza Henry-Jones on Gillian Mears' Foal's Bread

Writers & Other Animals: Eliza Henry-Jones on Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Annabel Smith

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…

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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Book #6: Feelings

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #6: Feelings

Posted on June 23, 2017November 8, 2018 by Annabel Smith

Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by a maelstrom of feelings. There is frustration that you can’t get an agent…

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The Plague: Journey to a Book #1 - Freefall Writing a First Draft

The Plague: Journey to a Book #1 – Freefall Writing a First Draft

Posted on May 30, 2017March 11, 2022 by Annabel Smith

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

What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #4: Prizes

Posted on May 11, 2017June 1, 2018 by Annabel Smith

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 #2: Book Launches

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #2: Book Launches

Posted on April 7, 2017June 1, 2018 by Annabel Smith

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 #1: Getting a Blurb

What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #1: Getting a Blurb

Posted on April 3, 2017June 1, 2018 by Annabel Smith

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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