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Keeping It Real (Royalty statements three years post publication)

Since I’m always grateful to authors who pull back the curtain and show us what it’s really like, I thought I would contribute to the conversation by sharing my royalty statements.

An Open Letter of Complaint

I am writing this letter of complaint to all the Australian publishers who don’t feel it is necessary to send letters of rejection to the authors who submit their work for consideration.

The Stuff We’re Not Telling You (The downside to being an author)

In order to balance the reality of what we see in our feeds, I approached a bunch of writers from across the country and asked them to share all the things they felt they couldn’t …

Learning the art of (self) promotion with Holly Craig

There are plenty of places you can learn writing skills from Holly but what I wanted to learn was Holly’s next-level self promotion skills.

Secret Life of an Author Bookseller, Part 1 – How does your book end up on the shelf?

Whoever coined the phrase ‘available at good bookshops everywhere’ is doing good bookshops a disservice, because even the biggest and best bookshop cannot possibly stock 10,000 new titles every year.