by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Publishing
Earlier this week a reader whose fiction manuscript has been rejected by a few of the main publishing houses in Australia asked for my advice. She was looking for a translation, really. She wrote: What does it mean when a publisher says: “this is good, better than a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog, Grants for writers
Australia’s unique landscape has inspired writers for generations. Now with the support of the McLean Foundation, the Nature Conservancy Australia has announced a generous prize for the author of an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words about place. The Nature...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 22, 2012 | Blog, Publishing
I’ve decided to leave the blog at home while I go on a much-needed vacation until early August. Any queries that arrive during that time will languish unnoticed, as I am thoroughly tired of looking at a computer screen all day, every day. I’m taking my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog, Publishing
The Out of Print Writing blog has just published a short series of interviews with an Australian publisher (Rebecca Starford, Affirm Press), an Australian literary agent (me) and a writer (Neil Randall) on what happens when a writer gets “a nibble” of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog, Publishing
I thought I’d been a bit quiet in the Twitterverse during June, but my monthly list of my most popular Tweets seems to tell a different story. I hope there’s something helpful here for you: None of that 4-hr work week hokum: Penelope Trunk’s...