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