As a features writer, I've spent a lot of my time asking variations on this question: "Does anyone know anyone who [insert wears blue nail polish/howls at the moon/is willing to get naked for a readership of 500,000+/had a baby early/had a baby late/had a baby on...
This revelation may surprise you, but sometimes I’m not, um, fascinated by the subjects I’m commissioned to write about. Superannuation springs to mind. Supermarkets follow close behind (mostly because that’s what I’m meant to be doing even as I write this post)....
'Tis the season of school visits and I'm lucky enough to have been invited by the NSW Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) to visit four local schools who are participating in the CBCA Sun Project: Book Of The Year Shadow Judging program. The...
"I'm writing my family history." Whenever I teach a writing workshop for adults, as I did this week ('Writing Through The Messy Middle'), I ask what people are writing and there is invariably at least one person who is creating a book based on family history. Our...
Writing craft books are a mainstay of every author's bookshelf – we're always trying to learn more and there's always more to be learned. But there are SO many writing craft books out there, it can be difficult to know which ones are worth it. In October, my Write...
I love writing for children. I love teaching kids about writing. But I especially love talking about writing with other authors who write in the kids/YA space. One such author is international bestseller Amie Kaufman, who has hit the New York Times bestselling lists...
It's the earliest days of a brand-spanking new year and anything is possible! If your goal is write more this year – perhaps to finish the first draft of your first novel, perhaps to add to a growing body of work, I've rounded up some more of my 'elsewhere'...
Things have been a bit quiet around here, it's true – but that doesn't mean I haven't been out and about sharing writing tips, tricks and advice! So here's a round up of some writing posts you may have missed. From how some of Australia's top authors got their first...
Graeme Simsion is not only the author of The Novel Project, a new writing craft book, and a bunch of international bestselling books, he's also a very generous soul. When Valerie Khoo and I began our So You Want To Be A Writer podcast all those years ago, Graeme was...
