For this month’s First Friday Club, our Program Officer Ashley Kalagian-Blunt spoke to Joel Naoum of Critical Mass, a consulting business for authors and publishers.

Belinda Lopez is a writer, performer and radio producer for ABC RN’s This is About podcast. Kate Montague is the founder of Audiocraft, a community for Australian radiomeakers and podcasters. What inspired you to pursue careers in podcasting? KM: It wasn’t until I had my first child – and I was home more – that […]

Patrick Lenton is an author and digital marketing professional. He has worked for Momentum Books, the digital-first imprint of Pan Macmillan, and now runs Town Crier, a digital marketing and social media consultancy for authors. So authors can’t make any money from self-publishing, can they? Very not true – as long as authors treat self-publishing […]

Angelo Loukakis kicked off last week’s First Friday Club with a brassy iPhone recording of jazz clarinettist, Edmond Hall. Hall played in Louis Armstrong’s All Stars band in the 1950s, and indeed, was a famous New Orleans jazz, Swing, and big band performer in his own right. His frenetic clarinet rendition of Sweet Georgia Brown […]