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Ask an ALAA Agent: Tips and Tricks for Marketing and Promoting Your Digital Debut

Wednesday, 1 April 2015
On Writing, The Victorian Writer
By: Jacinta di Mase

‘Social media does not constitute a marketing plan.’ – Judith Curr, President and Publisher of the Atria Publishing Group. Many Australian publishers now have a direct-to-digital imprint, whether for genre fiction, such as the romance imprints: Escape (Harlequin), Destiny (Penguin Random House), or HarperImpulse (HarperCollins). Other companies such as Momentum (Pan Macmillan) and Xoum publish […]

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Golden Rules for Writing Groups

Sunday, 1 March 2015
On Writing, The Victorian Writer
By: Rochelle Siemienowicz

Some geniuses write alone. Without a single word of encouragement or criticism, these annoyingly self-motivated authors emerge with a fully formed masterpiece ready for publication. For the rest of us, being part of a community of other writers helps us polish our work and find new publishing opportunities – not to mention helping us maintain

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Ask an ALAA Agent – Is Your Manuscript Ready?

Sunday, 1 March 2015
On Writing, The Victorian Writer
By: Jenny Darling

Advice for new writers of novels:

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Ask an ALAA Agent – Get a Grip on Life

Thursday, 1 January 2015
On Writing, The Victorian Writer
By: Clare Forster

Some of Australia’s most remarkable and inspiring stories stem from true life. Told in voices plain, ornate, and everything in between, first-person accounts serve many purposes and begin from diverse places. A great number of successful books are sparked by the writer’s curiosity about a detail of family, which has always been puzzling or unspoken:

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Ask an ALAA Agent – Selling Rights

Monday, 1 December 2014
On Writing, The Victorian Writer
By: Fiona Inglis

I begin every talk I ever give – no matter what the subject – by telling people they need to have something worth selling. It applies to agents, publishers, and authors. The best description of something worth selling is: a good story, well told. This applies to fiction, narrative non-fiction and children’s books.

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Ask an Agent – How to Make a Submission

Saturday, 1 November 2014
On Writing, The Victorian Writer
By: Jacinta di Mase

Do you have a manuscript in your ‘bottom drawer’? One that you promised yourself that you would finish, polish, and get out to agents and/or publishers this year? Now it’s October. . . The year is almost over and you’re keen to make good on that New Year’s resolution and get it onto someone’s desk

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Plotter vs Pantser

Friday, 3 October 2014
On Writing
By: Graeme Simsion and Paddy O’Reilly interviewed by Kate Steele

The classic plotter vs pantser debate continues, as Graeme Simsion and Paddy O’Reilly speak to Program Intern Kate Steele about plotting and flying by the seat of your pants. The Plotter – Graeme Simsion You wrote your first novel ‘The Rosie Project’ in a unique way, having started it as a screenplay, then adapting it

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Writing Fellows and competition winners announced

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
On Writing
By: admin

The recipients of the annual Glenfern Fellowships and emerging writers’ competition have been announced. Glenfern Fellowships The 2014 Glenfern Fellowships for Mid-Career and Established Writers (supported by the Readings Foundation) were awarded to Jennifer Down, Lee Kofman and Christian Ryan. The 2014 Glenfern Fellowships for Emerging Writers (supported by the Grace Marion Wilson Trust) were

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On blogging and advocacy

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
On Writing, Write-ability Archive
By: admin

WV interviewed award-winning writer, speaker and appearance activist Carly Findlay in the lead-up to her Writeability advocacy writing workshops at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival. When did you first start your blog and how has it developed you as a writer? I started this blog in 2009, while I was at university studying my masters

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What makes a bad synopsis?

Monday, 7 October 2013
On Writing
By: Clare Allan-Kamil interviewed by Shivaun Plozza

With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, Clare has plenty of advice to help us break down the art of the dreaded synopsis. In Part 1 of this interview, Clare gave us her top tips on how to get your synopsis right. For Part 2, she shares her thoughts on the sort of things

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