… is Jess Fitzpatrick from The Neverending Bookshelf which is sort of appropriate because I don’t have one of those and I am running out of bookshelf space myself. Jess Fitzpatrick, you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I fail quite a lot. And that’s ok. And here’s why. 1. Failure depends on your perspective. If someone’s idea (let’s be a bit stereotypical for the sake of an example here) is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Author Jane Rawson is a fantastic person. And to attest to that awesomeness she has started a Readathon for the winter months of June and July. Basically you read whatever you like but if you are part of the team, people sponsor you for each book you read and the money goes to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation which I ...
This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series "How to write a book" seriesThree years is a long time. Three years ago, I was asked to run an online group on how to write books. The posts ended up here. A... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
No, I did not make a spelling error – it is Inceptio NOT Inception. If you think it sounds like a thriller, you would be right. If you thought it sounded like a Dan Brown novel you will be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
So in Part 1 I explained why I wanted to answer the question of becoming a freelance journalist but also clarify exactly how difficult it can be to work as a freelance journalist. In this part I am going to tell you what, in Australia at least, you need in order to become a freelance journalist and to set up ...
When Jane Rawson’s book A Wrong Turn At The Office of Unmade Lists showed up in my mail box, I was both thrilled and dismayed. I was thrilled because the cover caught my eye and it had maps on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Stay away from the guild. No guild I have ever known has been without its share of drama. You don’t need to recreate high school all over again. Be aware of what they do as story ideas abound... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
While meandering through Facebook one day, I noticed that a younger friend of mine had tagged me in a status post. I clicked through to see what it was about and why he would feel the need to mention... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Over the past year, I have been looking into various means and platforms for crowdfunding. Why? Because I have a lot of ideas for novels and projects and while I make enough to support myself, sometimes these novels and projects incur costs to get them underway. The novels, for example, once the manuscripts are done and at first draft, require ...
Amanda Curtin’s book Elemental will be officially launched tomorrow in Perth. It has been available for almost an entire month and I had the pleasure of interviewing her for this profile... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Real Scientists [<a href="//storify.com/571811/day-2-ethics-numbers-and-why-science-journos-find" target="_blank">View the story "Day 2: Ethics,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
NOTE: The names of those who commented are blacked out in each screenshot for their privacy. It started with an event that the Court Hotel, a well known GLBTIQ venue here in Perth, Australia, wanted... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This entry is part 19 of 18 in the series FreelancingWhat the hell is a style sheet? Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
There is a jar on one of my bookshelves. It smells vaguely of tomato sauce and in it are little twists of paper. The twists of paper hold words – reminders of things that have happened that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
It’s been five years since I started freelancing. Or at least it was on Saturday. Five years. Wow. A lot can happen in five years. I started freelancing because I knew it would take awhile to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013Murder On The Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan When I first found this book, I was thrilled. Crime fiction is the genre I love diving into and it always thrills me to find a potentially interesting, intriguing new crime fiction author I haven’t found before. And ...
In case you missed it, I got interviewed by my Honours buddy, entrepreneur, day dreamer and all things film and marketing knowledgeable, Fay Ann D’Souza of Thousand By Ten Days and Chutzpah... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
