My blog is turning four. I love the age of four. Both of my boys were full of life and questions and cheek and cute and annoying at four. I wonder if my blog will be the same? Now that i'm officially an author blogger, perhaps not. My fourth year of blogging has been...
When I did year 12, right after the year 11 work experience fiasco, there were only a couple of places a NSW girl could consider going to uni to study journalism. Mitchell College in Bathurst was one, UTS was another. Over the following decades, Communications courses...
One question I get asked a lot is whether I have an agent. When I answer yes, the next question is 'why?'. After that comes 'how do I get one?'. Clearly I can answer the first one quite easily, but the second takes a bit more explanation and the third... well, it's...
My new book, The First Summer of Callie McGee, is out now in bookshops everywhere – and I'm at home in that strange netherworld that is post-launch day. Pre-publication day, the anticipation builds and builds, like those epic summer thunderstorms that press the very...
"What's the one thing you wish you'd known when you started out as an author?" It's a big question, and one I've been toying with over the past week. The problem is, there are just SO many things I wish I'd known. Narrowing it down to one seems impossible. So I...
So You Want to be a Writer Discover everything you need to be a successful writer (while you still have a day job).The ultimate guide to making your writing dreams come true Want to write a novel or earn an income as a freelance writer, but not sure how to go about...
If you've been listening to the So You Want To Be A Writer podcast, you'll know that Val and I are both fans of musical theatre. She never misses an opportunity to drop Hamilton into the conversation, while I... well, you can read about the time I randomly auditioned...
As Valerie Khoo and I head rapidly towards 200 episodes of our So You Want To Be A Writer podcast, our backlist of fabulous - and by that I mean fabulously useful - interviews grows. Thanks to the attention that our recent interview with publisher Marisa Pintado...
Robin Elizabeth popped up in my Twitter feed several years ago and adds a bright spot of conversation to it nearly every day. So when I was looking for someone to talk to about self-publishing, I thought of her immediately. Her memoir, Confessions of a Mad Mooer,...
