At the moment we’re focusing on all things travel, and to whet your appetite we’re publishing some posts from our favourite travel blogs. Enjoy this one from The Road to Anywhere.  A little bit about the author, Dean Wickham: Dean Wickham is an intrepid traveller from Australia with a thirst for adventure. He has travelled […]

This article about The Making of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent recently appeared in ACTWRITE: The Magazine of the ACT Writers’ Centre. Jacqueline Kent is teaching a course called Whose Life is It Anyway? at the NSW Writers’ Centre, beginning Saturday 21 April.   When Jacqueline Kent first considered writing a biography of one of […]

Starting today we’re focusing on all things travel, and to whet your appetite we’re publishing some posts from our favourite travel blogs. First off is this one from Brooke vs. the World. A little bit about Brooke Brooke Schoenman blogs about her travel-obsessed life at Brooke vs. the World. The site follows her journeys everywhere […]

The wonderful editoresses at Allen and Unwin have let us draw on their collective wisdom to answer the question: What Do Editors Do All Day? Check out their fantastic blog Alien Onion, where this series first appeared. Other than the cover, the blurb is the only tool a reader has to tell if a book […]

The wonderful editoresses at Allen and Unwin have let us draw on their collective wisdom to answer the question: What Do Editors Do All Day? Check out their fantastic blog Alien Onion, where this series first appeared. So we’ve talked about making the insides of a book – but what about the outsides? The cover. […]

The wonderful editoresses at Allen and Unwin have let us draw on their collective wisdom to answer the question: What Do Editors Do All Day? Check out their fantastic blog Alien Onion, where this series first appeared. If we were structural editing this occasional series, we might ask, ‘Why didn’t you begin this series with […]

The wonderful editoresses at Allen and Unwin have let us draw on their collective wisdom to answer the question: What Do Editors Do All Day? Check out their fantastic blog Alien Onion, where this series first appeared. ‘So… what do editors actually, you know, do?’ This is a question we get asked all the time. […]

Where Nathan Farrugia talk about editors, Scrivener and the INTERNETS. In today’s post, I’m going to share what it’s like to have your novel edited. By a publisher. Or what it’s like to wax your inner thighs. No, just kidding. The editing is much more fun. And I never waxed my inner thighs, I don’t […]

In the lead-up to my Blogging for Beginners course at the NSW Writers Centre, I thought I’d give myself a little interview, going over some questions I commonly get asked about my blogging life. Why did you start blogging? I started blogging, partly, as a sort of reaching out. I was living in the town […]