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

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

How Writers Earn Money: Podcast

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

Fabulous launch parties for which publishers foot the bill seem to be less and less common nowadays. When faced with covering the cost themselves,…

This week myself and fellow author Jane Rawson started a new blog series, in which we dish the dirt on what happens just before,…