by Virginia Lloyd | May 17, 2017 | Blog, Client book news and links
There are few things more satisfying than seeing your book published at last. Holding a hard copy in your hands, seeing it on the shelf of a bookshop, or listed with a thumbnail cover image at an online store – there’s no taking away the enormous...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog, Editorial Development, Improve your writing, Publishing
In my experience, if your manuscript has areas for improvement, they will be obvious to a publishing industry professional in the very first pages of your work, whether fiction or nonfiction. To an unpublished writer this may sound harsh, but to people who read...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog, Grants for writers
Wonderful news from Black Inc Books: calls for autobiographical accounts of growing up Aboriginal in Australia for an anthology aimed at high school students, to be published in 2018. This is a timely and brilliant idea – have we really not had such a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog, Grants for writers
Under the leadership of Peter Rose and the generosity of individual donors, the venerable Australian Book Review has expanded both the number and quality of its writing fellowships and prizes in recent years. Here are some application deadlines to note if you have...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog, Publishing
I’m extremely happy to report that GIRLS AT THE PIANO, the book I have been writing, on and off, for the past seven (gasp) years, will be published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in early 2018. While it’s good news for me personally – the second...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 10, 2016 | Blog, Publishing
According to a roundup of rights sales at the book industry’s biggest get-together, the Frankfurt Book Fair, psychological thrillers are going the way of wizards, but nonfiction about the environment is in, in, in. What’s the Frankfurt Book Fair? Each...
