Yesterday I attended a beautiful ‘farewell’ afternoon tea at the gorgeous Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, to say goodbye to the talented Linsay Knight, children’s publisher of Random House Aus., and to wish her well in her retirement. Linsay picked my mss from the slush pile more than 10 years ago (Shalott), and has been…
It’s been a full on but incredibly interesting weekend spent at the NSW Writers Centre with tutor Jude McGee giving us an overview of the publishing/book selling industry in general, how it works and how to get your mss before an editor, with some frightening statistics about closing bookshops and declining book sales but also…
My fabulous webmaster, Jason Rhodes, has done a makeover of my website and connected me to the 21st century – fantastic job, Jason! So if you haven’t already done so, do lob in and have a click around, there’s lots to see. I still need to work out how to operate some of these tag…
The video book trailer advertising the series is finally done! Do let me know what you think. It is such a milestone, and such a pleasure to know that the series is now complete and available through amazon (either printed or e-book versions)and that fans of the series are really enjoying reading the last two…
And what a wonderful weekend it was too! So many readers and writers of crime all come together and such a buzz swapping notes about favourite books and favourite authors. The greatest difficulty was choosing between panels when there was such a wide range of exciting topics and authors to choose from! I was lucky…
… TO GET A GOOD READ. I have this logo front and back on my Sisters in Crime t-shirt which I’ll be wearing at the SheKilda Convention 7-9th October in Melbourne. It’s going to be HUGE, a must-go-to venue for readers and writers of crime fiction and non-fiction. I’m looking forward to my panels, talking…
There’s a lot of interest in my experience of publishing the last two Janna Mysteries through createspace, and as a result I’ve been asked to contribute to several wonderful book blogs that feature books, authors (not only me!) resources for readers and writers and other really interesting information. Please check them out (along with my…
I had a fantastic day yesterday! Went up to the beautiful St Patrick’s (ex)seminary at North Head in Manly for the ‘lunch with the stars’ – hundreds of students plus teachers plus authors and illustrators, and there was such a buzz about books and reading and authors, it was a really wonderful day. Congratulations to…
Thank you to all of you who have bought the last two Janna Mysteries and who have been writing to me to tell me how much you’re enjoying them. I have absolutely loved writing the series and when I came to finish the last book I felt as if I was saying goodbye to close…
It’s amazing how the universe conspires to help you, to send you the right person, or book (or both) just when you most need them. I recently wrote a piece on my experience of publishing with createspace for Newswrite, published by the NSW Writers Centre. As a result, the very kind and generous Serene Conneeley…