Liane Moriarty is one of those rare people who can write 'internationally best-selling author' after her name. Her warm, family-centric novels have staked a claim to some prime real estate on my bookshelf, and her book What Alice Forgot has been optioned by Fox...
Kylie Ladd, one of my very favourite 'acclaimed Australian authors', launched her third book Into My Arms this week. I met Kylie on Twitter in my very earliest weeks, and she was and is all of the good things: smart, funny, engaging, friendly. I read her first book...
I first met Fleur McDonald about four years ago, not long after the publication of her second novel Blue Skies. She was then working on her third novel Purple Roads, and if anyone was following the maxim to 'write what you know' it was Fleur, who lives on an isolated...
Editing is on my mind this week. Not only am I editing a manuscript, but I've had several different queries over the past little while, all of which had one answer: get an editor. I think a lot of people are scared of editors, both the magazine and book variety,...
The Australian magazine industry is a relatively small place. You can work with people on one magazine, not hear from them for years, and then, voila!, up they pop on another title you're writing for. Georgia Cassimatis is one of those names that you will have seen in...
I love Charlotte Wood. There, it's out there. I feel so much better. I read her novel The Children a few years ago, as part of one of my ill-fated ventures into the territory of Book Clubs (I am not a fan of book clubs, but that is a whole different post), and when...
Today's guest is Joanna Penn, author of ARKANE thrillers, Pentecost, Prophecy and Exodus, and the force behind The Creative Penn, which has been voted one of the Top 10 blogs for writers for three years running. (That's her on the left.) I discovered Joanna's blog a...
I've received a few emails lately from people who are writing non-fiction books and wondering what on earth to do with them once they're finished. Enter, the book proposal. The proposal is what you send an agent or a publisher to give them an overview of your book, a...
I remember seeing Kate Forsyth speak several years ago at a Romance Writers' Conference, and being in awe of her ability to talk sensibly about world-building and characterisation. Her fantasy and historical novels, for children and adults, are sweeping stories of...
