by Virginia Lloyd | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Client book news and links, Memoir
To see my client Tim Elliott’s memoir Farewell to the Father make the cover of The Good Weekend last weekend (left), as well as this extract on news.com.au, was pretty exciting, to say the least. I’ve already received several emails from people who read...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links, Editorial Development, Memoir
Being based in Sydney again I am happy to be able to attend client events in person — such as the Sydney launch this week of Anna Bligh’s important memoir, Through the Wall, at HarperCollins HQ. I was Anna’s development editor. What that means is...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 23, 2013 | Blog, Memoir
I’ve always aspired to be a “woman of letters,” so I’m pretty excited to report that I’ll be appearing at Housing Works Bookstore in SoHo this Wednesday 27th March, from 7.00pm at New York’s first Women of Letters Literary Salon....
by Virginia Lloyd | May 9, 2012 | Blog, Memoir
I was honoured and delighted to learn that my memoir The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement is now the subject of a long article in academic journal TEXT. Senior Lecturer Bernadette Brennan, of the University of Sydney’s English Department, has just...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 27, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
For those readers who don’t use Twitter or who didn’t catch these links the first time I tweeted them, I’ve decided to post a select time-sucking round-up of my most-retweeted links from the past month. Topics will always be some combination of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
For those readers who don’t use Twitter or who didn’t catch these links the first time I tweeted them, I’ve decided to post a regular round-up of my most-popular links on writing, editing, memoir and grants for writers from the past month. By doing...