by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog, Publishing
This past weekend the Australian Financial Review Magazine ran Andrew Cornell’s ‘Brave new world of book publishing’. It’s essential reading for any serious writer aspiring to publication in Australia. I would have loved to reproduce the text...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 22, 2014 | Blog, Publishing
I just wanted to say hello 2014 and confirm that I’m back on deck, at my desk. After visiting family in Sydney I returned to a chilly NYC and my usual mix of corporate and creative client work. This month I attended a Digital Book World conference workshop on...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 1, 2012 | Blog, Popular, Publishing
I’ve just returned from a too-brief trip to Sydney where, in addition to catching up with family, a couple of old friends and a few clients, I enjoyed a number of meetings with publishers from the major trade publishing houses based there.* Would you like to...
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...