Unusual publication deal includes $20,000 in donations
Our publishing deal for So Far, So Good was a bit unusual – it included substantial donations to Indigenous-led charities. Pantera Press have issued a media release about it, which I’ve included in full below. Do you have thoughts? I’d love to hear them. Leave a comment, below, and let me know. Pantera Foundation donates…
Offers from publishers
Right now I have written offers from six different publishers (so far). Yes, six. Yes, all of them well-known publishing houses. I know, I’m gobsmacked too. I’ve spent the last few weeks talking with each of them, on the phone and face-to-face – wonderful and lengthy conversations about writing, editing, history and Elizabeth Macarthur. I…
Mary Cunnane – wisdom and advice from Australia’s favourite literary agent
We were all such literary newbies that the HARDCOPY program co-ordinator had to explain to us who Mary Cunnane was. Only the one of the best-known agents in Australia. Only the woman to whom all doors in publishing were open. Only the founder of the Australian Literary Agents Association. Oh, you mean THAT Mary Cunnane. …
How to be an author
During the first of the HARDCOPY workshops we studied how to write well. The second workshop, though, is all about how to be an author. It is not at all the same thing. With a day still to go, my head is swimming with information. In the days and weeks to come I will try…