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Blog postI’ve mentioned before the way Amazon publication has entered new territory since the Big Five managed to get their own way about e-book pricing. It’s become increasingly apparent that conventional publishers have worked out how the maximise their gains from e-books and distributors, and while still bemoaning their existence have seized on the new opportunities … Continue reading A two-speed economy: How traditional publishers are benefiting from Amazon. →
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Blog postSince my last post – and thanks so much to everyone who liked it – I have been giving more thought to my writing career.
I realise that I shied away from confronting one of the core realities about the writing career today: namely, who are you? If you have to Put Yourself Out There to Reach Your Readers you have to first work out who those readers might be and then consider what kind of author they want you to be, which means, you have to look like that writer. Once upon a time a writ -
Blog postOnly a bit over three months left of 2018 and the silly season is almost upon us. Everyone in Australia knows that the country shuts down in early November with the Melbourne Cup and doesn’t start up again until the end of January.
As I don’t go to the races, have no travel plans for the summer and don’t drink alcohol this annual idiocy-fest should not affect me. But I am filled with fear and trepidation because I have so many writing projects which were going to be released “by the e -
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Blog postIn my previous post I mentioned the problems Australian authors are having under the new KDP publication model. I wanted to offer a couple of observations based on personal experience. I have used KDP, CreateSpace and Ingram Spark in my experiments with publishing to date. I found Ingram Spark quite problematic – this was a … Continue reading Amazon creates NoSpace for Australian authors: Ingram Spark to the rescue? →
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Blog postReposted: Traditional publishing and the issue of editing – we need to look more closely at this.
The Let's Play Ball Blog
Traditional publishers will probably never embrace independent authors as equals. They will be loath to admit that the terms of engagement in this ongoing battle are changing, that the combatants are becoming more equal, and that some authors even find a way to go “hybrid.” It’s becoming increasingly clear that the trads are losing the high ground they onc -
Blog postEver get the feeling that independent publishing, which promised so much, is heading down the vortex, especially for Australian authors? When it all started rolling it seemed like writers would be able to reach readers without all the intermediaries deciding who and what would be allowed through the hallowed gates of author-dom. It looked as … Continue reading Is there really a future for independent publishing in Australia? →
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Blog postLast post I was carrying on (at too much length as usual) about auto-fiction and Christ Kraus’s books (among others). I’m still wandering around in that terrain, definitely feeling less lost. I mean, I’m getting it. And want to say a few things about Kraus’s bio of Kathy Acker as well as a strange new publication … Continue reading “I Love Dick”: from obscure auto-fiction to (temporary) TV hit. →
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Blog postWhile still musing (fretting, angsting, brooding) about the memoirs (Outside the Frame) I noticed a recent comment in The Guardian by Alex Clark (Sat 23rd June 2018). There are booms in things that we in slow old Australia sometimes don’t know about for ages, or they are overlooked in the very few outlets where local readers find out about what books to read eg The Weekend Australian Review (sorry, Stephen Romei, we love you anyway). The hot new thing, Clark says, is autofiction. Another
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Blog postAfter the last few months of dizzying dance around the Memoirs, I’m pressing on now with a radical plan – submitting to an Australian publisher’s open call with The Dying Year, about the events in 2008 when my very elderly mother and fairly elderly ex-husband die in the same three week period. The events sparked … Continue reading Me-moir, semi-moir or fictionalized non-fiction? →
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Blog postLast time I wrote a bit about the memoir I am currently reading, by Tara Westover. This led me to reconsider other memoir writers who have been especially influential (and otherwise) in my current project. I think it’s incredibly important to remain aware of the link between what you are reading and what you are writing. There are thousands of memoirs around, a lot of them extremely boring. But memoirs of writers … especially of writers who mainly write memoirs … it’s a whole area of literary
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Blog postThanks to the Happiness Engineers at WordPress, it is now possible for customers to purchase a print (paperback) copy of The Priceless Princess using Paypal. However, due to postage costs, AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMERS ONLY can order The Priceless Princess through this Website. Customers in the US can order copies through the US Amazon site. Elsewhere, orders through local bookshops will be serviced via Ingram Spark.
You can order more than one copy at a time, but if you want more than three i -
Blog postSo many wonderful positive reviews I have been receiving for the Priceless Princess. I gave out a number of paperbacks as presents, or just for fun to people I valued, for their children. I didn’t ask anyone to send a review, so receiving them has been such a pleasure. I’ve been putting copies of the reviews on this website (See Reviews ). I was thrilled by Kristen’s suggestion. She said:
“I do hope you will write more for this age group. Quite frankly there is such ru -
Blog postClick on the tab above to read how the writing of the Priceless Princess came about.
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Blog postIn putting together the section on Animals and Birds in the Priceless Princess I have had to request permission to use a number of images because they are not in the public domain. Reproducing a photograph or drawing after a Google search is very easy but it is illegal to use any images other than those already located in the public domain, as in Wiki Commons and some other sources. So, I want to thank the great photographers who have agreed already (I will give them full attribution in the s
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Blog postThe Priceless Princess has been many years in the making. Go to the Page called “The Writing of the Priceless Princess” to find out more about the story, and to learn about the author and her grandchildren, who inspired it.
Purchase a signed copy with a message from this website posted anywhere in Australia – go the the PURCHASE IN AUSTRALIA tab and click.
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Blog postKeith Draws Click on the tab with this name on the banner above to read more about how the process of illustration worked for this book.
I needed a visual concept for the central character, Princess Sophie. My granddaughter Lulu is very blonde with blue eyes and pink skin. Pretty much what you would expect for a Princess. But I have another grand-daughter, Lulu’s cousin Lily, who has bright red hair and eyes that are brown but sometimes almost green. What an enterprising brave -
Blog postEastern Grey Wallaby with joey in pouch “Wildlife” is a word used to describe creatures – animals, birds, fish – who exist in their own right, in their own world, with their own rhythms and behaviours which have not been decided upon by human desires. Until around 8-10,000 years ago, all animal life was “wild” and maybe we could say a lot of human life was “wild” as well. The process of domestication took existing creatures and, in various ways, changed them to suit the needs of humans. Some
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