Category: Writing
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How to Set Up an Email Newsletter for Authors
Hands up if you’ve heard that you need an email newsletter as an author? Is your hand still up? While you might have heard you need an email newsletter, you might not have the first idea about how to set one up, or even why people would want to hear from you in the first…
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Winning Three Scarlet Stiletto Prizes!
What a weekend! If you haven’t seen me posting all over the internet already, I won three prizes at the Scarlet Stiletto Awards on Saturday night including: The Sun Bookshop Third Prize The Kerry Greenwood Malice Domestic Award The Athenaeum Library Body in the Library Runner-Up Prize
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How to Get a Literary Agent
In July, I achieved one of my writing life goals by signing with Paul Stevens at Donald Maass Literary Agency. Since then I’ve had a lot of questions from friends and aspiring writers about how to get a literary agent. When you don’t have an agent, getting one seems like the holy grail of writing,…
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‘Lady Loveday Investigates’ is shortlisted for the Scarlet Stiletto Awards
I’m over the moon to announce that my short story, ‘Lady Loveday Investigates’ has been shortlisted for the Scarlet Stiletto Awards. The Scarlet Stiletto Awards are run by Sisters in Crime for Australian female crime authors, and there’s almost $10K in prizes up for grabs.
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I have an agent!
If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen some exciting news from me in the last month! I’ve got an agent! I’m now represented by Paul Stevens of Donald Maass Literary Agency. This is a big step for me as a writer and I couldn’t be happier.
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I’m on the Australian Shadows Awards Shortlist 2018
Surprisingly, this year has been a bit of an awards nomination bonanza for me. I’m on the shortlist for the Australian Shadows Awards for The Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism. It’s for my piece on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa at Weird Fiction Review, which you can read online for free.