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Introducing Authorpreneurship

Hazel Edwards — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:15:20 +0000

The business of creativity is changing, not just in the formats in which ideas are presented internationally but also how authors perceive themselves. Today, a creator needs to be an ‘authorpreneur’. What is Authorpreneurship? Author = originator Entrepreneur = seller who initiates Apart from crafting words or images for specific audiences, ‘authorpreneurship’ means learning the marketing, publicity, […]

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A Turning Point in My Life

Lannah Sawers-Diggins — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:05:28 +0000

I had a wonderful childhood, and leading up to the present, well, like everyone, I have had my share of ups and downs. But as I will tell anyone and everyone who’ll listen, I feel that I experienced a turning point in my life only a few years ago. I awoke one morning, on a birthday, with […]

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My First Publishing Contract

Vacen Taylor — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:42:11 +0000

It’s every writer’s dream to receive an email that says, “We would really love to publish your book.” Well, it’s finally happened for me. I expected myself to jump up and down on the lounge suite like Tom Cruise on the Oprah Winfrey Show, but I didn’t. I just read over the email a few times to make […]

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Challenging Typecasting as an Author

Hazel Edwards — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:15:55 +0000

“You’ve co-written a YA novel about transitioning gender! But I thought you only wrote nice children’s picture books like ‘There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake’?” I’m seen as a mainstream, Australian children’s author, especially as I’m now a grandmother. I have been typecast as a children’s picture book writer, and my regular readers […]

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Childbirth: The Inspiration to Write

Lily Mae Martin — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:00:32 +0000

Even as a child, I wanted to be a writer. I wrote an endless amount of poems and stories about wolves and horses. I also read a lot, and if I liked a particular author, I would hunt down every book, every item they had ever written. But to me personally, the writing game is […]

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Reflections on Literary Creativity

Vacen Taylor — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:00:14 +0000

I can’t recall the exact day I started writing. For that matter I can’t remember the exact day I took my first meaningful photograph. What can I tell you? Writing and photography filled a deep hole that seemed to be growing inside me a long time ago. I could have put it down to a […]

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Reclaiming the Right to Write – “One Year To A Writing Life” by Susan Tiberghien

Sylvia Petter — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:22:48 +0000

This review of Susan Tiberghien´s book was published in Bookarazzi when it first came out in 2007. Susan is the woman who showed me that I had the right to write. Now that I´m no longer able to participate in her workshops in Genveva, I am happy to have her book which I consult regulary for […]

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Late Nights and Inky Fingers: the Daily Life of a Book Editor

Karin Cox — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:17:05 +0000

Whenever someone asks that most common of “small talk” questions: “What do you do?” and I answer, “I’m a book editor,” I almost always find myself having to correct the notion that editing is a glamorous job. Fascinating—yes; Absorbing—certainly. But glamorous—rarely (unless one happens to be a fashion magazine editor in New York). Most of […]

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How My Day Job Saved My Writing Life

Sylvia Petter — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:36:00 +0000

We don’t all start out as writers. Some of us may not have thought that writing was even an option. I came late to writing fiction: I was in my forties, thinking of doing an MBA to further my career in telecommunications policy in Geneva, Switzerland. I signed up for one module with the Open University […]

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