by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 20, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links
Bestselling Australian author of The Mothers’ Group, Fiona Higgins (at right), is part of the Wordy Women tour of the East Coast of Australia with Allen & Unwin stablemates Kylie Ladd (left) and Maggie Joel (centre) to coincide with the publication of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links
This is the cover for Wife on the Run, the new novel from my client Fiona Higgins, the bestselling author of The Mothers’ Group. I don’t know how she does it, but Fiona has the ability to craft sexy, intelligent page-turners about contemporary Australian...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 21, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links, Editorial Development
This is the courageous and utterly charming Brooke Hemphill, clutching a copy of Lesbian For A Year, her memoir about, well, I’ll let you take a wild guess. Brooke is appearing in two events at the Melbourne Writers Festival. One is the Queer Literary Salon at...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 23, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links
If you read or heard about The Mothers’ Group, the debut novel by Fiona Higgins that was one of the biggest selling Australian novels of 2012, then I have some good news. Wife on the Run, Fiona’s new novel, will be published in Australia in November....
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links, Editorial Development
How do I work with the writers I choose to represent? I’ve heard from a few Australian writers recently who wanted to know a bit more about how I work with the authors I represent. In response I thought it might be useful to hear from one of my freshly published...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 1, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links
When final copies of a book arrive from the warehouse, it’s not only the author who smiles with pride and relief. To get from a draft manuscript to a printed book, ready for distribution to the booksellers who have ordered copies from the publisher’s sales...