In our second video for Writer's Edit, Founding Editor Helen Scheuerer talks about how she used Pinterest to organise visual aids for the second novel in the fantasy series she's currently...
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In 2010, author Emma Donoghue published Room – a novel which drew its primary inspiration from the grisly kidnapping case of Elisabeth Fritzl. Imprisoned underground by her father for 24 years, she...
The Essential Guide for Writing a Series vs. a Standalone Novel
A standalone novel and a series of novels are quite different forms to publish and write. Selling your novel is easier if you understand the unique marketing qualities of each, and how publishers...
To broaden the scope of our last article, How to Prepare Your Manuscript For Big Aussie Publishers, we've decided to explore some of Australia's top Independent Publishing houses, that offer some...
Alison Jean Lester’s Lillian on Life is a surprising book. When Lillian begins recounting her life story after waking up next to her married lover one day, I felt sure I was in for a certain type...
The Waiting Game: Strategies for Patience in the Publishing Industry
A friend who makes her living writing freelance nonfiction told me once that she wasn’t comfortable unless she had a dozen proposals out in the market. She needed a dozen balls in the air to feel...