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Author Archives: waxings
Oz Publishers Desperately Seeking Romance
Guest post by Nikki Logan I recently attended a national Australian writers’ conference in Melbourne and a national American writers’ conference in New York City just one month apart and thought what a magnificent opportunity for a bit of good … Continue reading
Find The Music In The Valleys
Guest post by Mark Cunningham Music is one of those things that writers have to decide. It’s kind of like Beatles or Stones. I am a music guy, that’s all there is to it. For the record I am listening … Continue reading
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Tagged mark cunningham, music, phish, the wombat returns, wombat, write, writing
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What Is Cyberpunk?
Guest post by Alex Adsett Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science and is generally a style of writing and way of telling a story that is heavily influenced by the noir detective fiction of the forties. More than this, it … Continue reading
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Tagged alex adsett, cyberpunk, diamond age, jeff noon, john courtney grimwood, neal stephenson, neuromancer, pashazade, science fiction, snow crash, vurt, william gibson, write, writing
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Blogging for Art or Profit
Why don’t more writers’ festivals do in-session food? Philip Thiel handed out slices of pork terrine before his session at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and they were DELICIOUS – not least because I’d skipped lunch to talk to interesting new … Continue reading
Winner, ‘Earth’ Challenge, and More..
Congratulations to Robin Rhyner, winner of the ‘earth’ challenge with the reflective mystery of Tracery. Robin wins a copy of Self-Editing for Fiction Writers : How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne and Dave King. Many thanks to all … Continue reading
Trends in Publishing – Part 3: We’ve Never Had It So Good
Relax. The mega-conglomerates are taking over publishing and that is a good thing. Emmett Stinson, author, poet, academic and president of SPUNC, Australia’s only advocacy group for small presses, says digital convergence in publishing is taking us to a brighter … Continue reading
Trends in Publishing – Part 2: Trends v Heart
Vampires, vampires and… more vampires. That’s a trend. Surprised? Catherine McCredie, a senior editor in the Books for Children and Young Adults department at Penguin Books, says she has lost track of the number of vampire books on the publisher’s … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, books, catherine mccredie, digital publishing, dystopia, Emerging Writers' Festival, isabella, malcolm gladwell, outliers, paranormal, paul jennings, penguin, publishers, shaun tan, sonya hartnett, steampunk, the boy and the toy, the lost thing, Town Hall Conference, trends in publishing, vampires, write, writing
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Trends in Publishing – Part 1: A Short, Sharp Future?
Here’s an interesting publishing trend – shorter books. Maybe. Editor David Winter says Text Publishing is doing a lot of short books at the moment. It’s not a deliberate strategy, he hastens to add. But his musing about the opportunities … Continue reading
Winner, ‘Water’ Challenge, and more…
Congratulations to J Gavin Allan, winner of the ‘water’ challenge with her delicate reflection on lost innocence, Observations of Nước Hoa. Jaye wins a copy of Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury. Thanks to all who took … Continue reading
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7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me
“Talking about writing is not writing, tweeting about writing is not writing, reading about writing is not writing, going to writing conferences is not writing, blogging about your work in progress is not writing… if you want to be a … Continue reading
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