This week’s giveaway book is “an affirming and delightful tale based on a true story of animal rescue and community cooperation”. It has a very long title – Flipper and Finnegan – The True Story of How Tiny Jumpers Saved Little Penguins and it’s by Sophie Cunningham, with illustrations by
By Allison Tait. Every author, whether aspiring or emerging or established, dreams of writing a bestseller. A book that will rocket up the sales charts, whether propelled by word of mouth or prize-winning status, dragging its writer behind it into a dream life of champagne and literary lunches. Whether the
By Angela Slatter. In your travels as a new writer, you’ve probably heard the term ‘beta reader’ but you might not quite know what that means. So, what’s a beta reader? A beta reader is someone who reads through your completed manuscript and gives their feedback. So, not just someone
When community health worker Bronwyn Hall found out she was going to be published she was delighted – and terrified!
“Firstly, I felt a profound shock,” Bronwyn recalls. “It was a case of, ‘Really? I mean, have they thought it through?’ Thankfully, my anxiety faded and the happy came back when the editing started.”
Bronwyn’s edge-of-the-seat debut thriller Gone to Ground is out now with HarperCollins and it’s already getting rave reviews.
Overwhelmed by the crowds and bustle of your local writers’ festival? Breaking out in a cold sweat at the very thought of making connections when you don’t know anybody there? If that describes you, fellow introvert (and Australian Writers Centre CEO) Valerie Khoo offers some great tips for meeting new
Queen of Crime Kathy Reichs, author of Cold Cold Bones. What you need on your author website and more. 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 Congratulations to Australian
‘Heartwarming, fulfilling and Australian as a lamb roast and full-bodied shiraz’ – The Australian Women’s Weekly This week’s giveaway book is a warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the sustaining power of love and community. It’s The Bellbird River Country Choir by Sophie Green, the Top Ten bestselling
By Allison Tait. When people talk about landing pages, writers seem to look the other way, assuming that landing pages are for people with, I don’t know, products to sell. The fact is, though, that if you are an author, with a book to sell, you have a product. Not
Criticism. We’ve all had it and for as long as we continue to be copywriters we’ll continue to get it. But it’s how we deal with it that makes all the difference. It can set us up to be better at what we do or it can cut us to
Congratulations to Al Campbell and Sandhya Parappukkaran, both Australian Writers’ Centre graduates, who are finalists in the Queensland Literary Awards 2022! Al Campbell is author of the incredible novel The Keepers. As a graduate of several Australian Writers’ Centre courses, including the Write Your Novel program, Al’s wonderful story has
What are the five Ps for making sure you have the best writers festival experience? Planning, pre-Booking, packing a lunch, remembering to make time for pleasure, and purchasing great books! Find out why these five Ps make such a difference with Australian Writers’ Centre CEO Valerie Khoo, onsite at Sydney
Sarah Vaughan studied English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. She spent eleven years at The Guardian as a news reporter and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction. Her first thriller, Anatomy of a Scandal, was an instant international bestseller, translated into twenty-two languages,
Patti Miller on her latest memoir True Friends. AWC graduates in The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald. Great read-it-later apps – and more. 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
‘So good. I couldn’t stop reading it’ – NICK HORNBY This week’s giveaway is a comic mystery about love, memory, and mind control from New York Times bestselling author and two-time Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley. It’s brand new, it’s called Cult Classic and we have three to be won.
By Allison Tait. In case you missed it, the financial year ended a few weeks ago in a flurry of retail sales and dire warnings about how the tax office is planning a crackdown in 2022 after a couple of years of benevolence due to the pandemic. The 21/22 financial
Calling all aspiring writers to get their pens ready for the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition 2022. It opens on 16 August 2022 and will be judged by acclaimed Australian writers Alice Pung and Christos Tsiolkas, who are looking for enticing stories that follow the theme of ‘Emergence’. From the press
Naomi Hart had spent several years preparing her debut memoir and was thrilled when it was picked up for publication. While going through the publication process, she decided she would take the opportunity to add to her writing skillset, so she enrolled into Freelance Writing Stage 1.
Few writers enjoy the process of writing their author bio and many succumb to the siren song of imposter syndrome and downplay their author credentials. Find out how to own the fact you’re a writer from the very first line with Australian Writers’ Centre CEO Valerie Khoo.
Matthew Ryan Davies is also the author of Things We Bury and (as Matt Davies) This Thing of Darkness, a contemporary young adult novel about guilt, grief, love and forgiveness set in modern-day Melbourne. As a manuscript, This Thing of Darkness was highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. He’s
Meet Kimberley Starr and her latest novel The Map of Night. Also: check out Readwise and discovering to write with what you’ve got. 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
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