Writing About Life

I was in Melbourne today. Had lunch with a friend who works in a major publishing house. We didn't really talk about publishing, but the Borders demise was mentioned.On the way home, I went to Borders in Highpoint. I bought $502.40 worth of books for $50.24. It felt...

Design by CommitteeThe last two weeks have been filled with some amazing and fortuitous experiences. I drove to Castlemaine the week before last and stumbled across a really good book designer, Josh Durham of Design by Committee, who has agreed to design some...

'What's it about?' Last post, I wrote about drafting a back cover blurb for my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone. The funny thing about back cover blurbs is that they tend to talk up a couple of opening incidents in the book, but don't really tell...

I have been talking about writing the back cover blurb for my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone, for a number of weeks now – talking and not writing. There are some writing tasks that writers tend to avoid: writing synopses, writing publishing...

I came reluctantly to the idea of self-publishing my fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone. In 2010, I had my manuscript with a couple of big Australian publishers. Even before I had my first rejection, I suspected the speculative and anthropological style of my...