by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 11, 2012 | Blog, Client book news and links, Publishing
I am delighted that my client Fiona Higgins’ debut novel, The Mothers’ Group, will be released in just a few weeks. Allen & Unwin are publishing the book in Australia, where it’s already getting a lot of buzz from booksellers. There’s a lot...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
In her “three-part rant” on the PEN Center USA blog, Shanna Mahin makes a series of sharp and timely points about the art and craft of writing memoir. Like many readers, myself included, Shanna is tired of memoir being considered the “red-headed...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Publishing
Publisher Mia Freedman has just announced on her Mamamia website that her company will be publishing e-books in 2012. Managing Editor of Mamamia Publishing will be Rebecca Sparrow, columnist, author, and until recently, Mamamia’s deputy editor. The...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 29, 2012 | Blog, Memoir
Here’s a quick round-up of writers’ resources I recently pointed to on Twitter that have proven popular retweets: My How to find grants for writers contains links to both US and Australian foundations and funding bodies and was my most popular tweet of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 24, 2012 | Blog, Grants for writers
Applying for a grant as a writer is easy in one sense – after all, you can write a decent sentence – but very difficult in lots of other ways. There will always be more applicants for any grant than there are grants available. Your chances of success are...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 21, 2012 | Blog, Memoir
If you’re looking for constructive feedback on your work in progress to take it to the next level, I’ve got some time available in February. I regularly read and write editorial reports on writers’ draft manuscripts for clients as distant from each...