Ep 473: Nita Prose on her worldwide bestseller ‘The Maid’.

The rise of BookTok and its incredible effect on the publishing industry. Books by women now achieving parity in media reviews. Why you need to beware of widows and orphans. Meet Nita Prose, author of the worldwide bestseller The Maid. And we have 3 copies of 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard to give away.

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Links mentioned in this episode

• White Pearl, written by Anchuli Felicia King
• Stella Count survey 
• The reading renaissance: could the #BookTok bump save publishing?
• WIN 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
• Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
• Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer

Writer in residence: Nita Prose

Nita Prose is Vice President/Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster in Canada and has worked at several publishing houses during her career. The Maid is her debut novel and is published by HarperCollins.

Follow Nita on Twitter.

Follow HarperCollins Australia on Twitter.

This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers’ Centre and our course Creative Writing Stage 1

Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).

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