Website Updates
I've made quite a few updates to my website including sharing and bookmarking buttons, a blog menu, a more user-friendly menu for finding Ian On the Net, updated the Competition Winners and provided a new link for Bookings.Ian IrvineFor more about me and my books: http://www.ian-irvine.com/To say Hi or talk to me about books and writing: http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.authorTo follow me on…
Website Updates
I've made quite a few updates to my website including sharing and bookmarking buttons, a blog menu, a more user-friendly menu for finding Ian On the Net, updated the Competition Winners and provided a new link for Bookings.Ian IrvineFor more about me and my books: http://www.ian-irvine.com/To say Hi or talk to me about books and writing: http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.authorTo follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ianirvineauthor My blog…
Louise Cusack on Manuscript Development
Manuscript development – most writers need it, but few know anything about it. Who better to talk about the topic than Louise Cusack, award-winning Australian author of romantic adventures set in lost worlds who has also run her own manuscript development business for the past 8 years. Her novella in the anthology Magic, Mystery, Voodoo and the Holy Grail won the PRISM…
Jessica Shirvington – Murky Waters of the First Draft
First drafts! I hate them. They make me feel as though I'm a fraud, not a writer, and I wouldn't even show one of mine to my dog. Or as Hemingway put it, 'The first draft of anything is shit!'Jessica Shirvington's first three novels – all urban fantasy – have been published in Australia in the past year, and her…
The Golden Age of Aussie Publishing
I dare say some writers, especially those struggling to get published or republished, will take issue with what I’m about to say, but I’ll say it anyway. The past decade and a half have been the golden age in Australian publishing and, over this time, it’s never been easier to get published – and to succeed as a writer.Let me…