Ep 486: Rebecca Lee on ‘How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book’

In this week’s episode: Meet Rebecca Lee, author of How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book. What is bionic reading? Where did ‘italics’ come from? And you could win your own copy of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

You can listen to the episode below, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or add the podcast RSS feed manually to your favourite podcast app.  

Links mentioned in this episode

• ‘Writing for children of all ages’ with Pamela Freeman & Lesley Gibbes
• Bionic reading
• Bionic reading article on The Guardian
• Bionic reading article on The Conversation
• WIN Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
• Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer

Writer in residence: Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee is a word nerd and publishing industry veteran. She’s spent twenty years managing hundreds of high-profile books from delivery of manuscript to finished copies, signing off millions of words as fit to go to print with only the occasional regret.

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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).