by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 20, 2025 | Blog, Client book news and links
When the World Was Soft was awarded the NSW State Library Awards 2025 Indigenous Writing prize. The graphic novel is a collaboration between the Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation and my client, the illustrator Alex Mankiewicz. Alex was referred to me by a mutual...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 26, 2023 | Blog
After editing a lot of query letters, opening chapters, and other materials for aspiring authors, I decided to publish this guide for those making a submission to Curtis Brown Australia. As an Australian expat living in Brooklyn, I review a lot of submissions...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 6, 2021 | Blog
LAST UPDATED: June 2025 This list of Australian literary agents is a companion piece to my post listing Australian publishers open to unsolicited manuscript submissions. While it’s not essential to get a literary agent in Australia to land a traditional...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 12, 2020 | Blog
As someone who’s worked from home for a long time now, my challenges with self-quarantine are about juggling homeschooling with earning a living, more than keeping my job in the first place. Every day, as I hear the sirens course through my neighbourhood,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog, Client book news and links
Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse, by my client, the eminent historian Dr Cassandra Pybus, will be available next week. Her biography of Truganini, erroneously known in the popular imagination as ‘the last Tasmanian’ of her race, is a significant...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog
The path to getting published took much longer than my clients Professional Gillian Straker and Dr Jacqui Winship expected, but their wonderful book The Talking Cure is now available in Australia and South Africa. About The Talking Cure ‘Until you make the...