1. INTERVIEW - ROBERT DOMINIC GENNARI - RISE OF A NEW SUN
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...e a leaf from. Much like a writer’s road to publication consists first of writing, editing, sending out manuscripts to publishers and a lot of waiting and ‘holding one’s breath&rsquo...

2. ARTICLE - REDISCOVERING THE JOYS OF WRITING
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...pted it, and I went from strength to strength.  I now write a weekly column, and have finally finished a manuscript, ready to be published.  However simple it has seemed till now, I am reali...

3. ARTICLE - CHOOSING A NEW FUTURE WITH SELF-PUBLISHING
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...ralian publishers the past year or two. But do the arithmetic. If each publisher typically demands to see the manuscript exclusively and then keeps it for about three months, just how many rejection n...

4. READER FEEDBACK - GET YOUR BOOK OFF THE GROUND
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...books as well as other people's novels this past year – is letting others read it. Today I sent the manuscript to a former colleague and friend and if I follow the advice in your book, I hav...

5. INTERVIEW - TONY PARK
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...For me, the two biggest stumbling blocks were time and place. It was hard for me to sit down and write a full manuscript. I'm not self disciplined enough to write to a schedule - I needed a big bl...

6. BOOK REVIEW - Get Your Book off the Ground
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... professionalism in your craft. Write something that’s put together in a sloppy manner, and submit your manuscript in a sloppy manner, and you will know the results before you hear it officially...

7. ARTICLE Self-Publish Your Way to Success
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...quo; status sooner rather than later Being a publisher author rather than simply a writer with an unpublished manuscript can mean career acceleration, prestige, wealth and opportunities beyond your wi...

8. ARTICLE Self-Publishing v Mainstream Publishers
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... distinctive methods that can be employed to get your book on a book-store shelf. One involves the sending of manuscripts to publishers — whether that is directly or via an agent. The second is ...

9. ARTICLE The Right Time to Write
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... the journey of writing a book actually finish it. Of those that do complete their stories and have completed manuscripts, fewer still will publish them. Of those that do publish them, few will make a...

10. ARTICLE Can that Novel Desire become a Reality?
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...r. It can also mean that the publisher already has a full 'book' of this kind of work. So assess your manuscript, improve it if you can, make sure it's the best it can possibly be - then t...

11. ARTICLE Coming to America - An Australian's Adventure in Publishing
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...ished and sold around 20,000 copies on my own or maybe my move to America in 2001 naturally led me to send my manuscript to an American publisher first. Whatever the case, publishers in America will t...

12. ARTICLE Writing a book is just the beginning
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...is write a book. One of the greatest misconceptions harbored by writers is that the job is done when the book manuscript is mailed. While manuscript completion is a time to celebrate, it is also the t...

13. NEWS Bayside Literary Festival
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...the community. The literary festival will also include writing workshops. The From Memories to Manuscript workshop is perfect for people keen to write their life story or fami...

14. ARTICLE Wood Wind and Words
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...ive than me who haven’t come this far. I know there are literary geniuses out there, some banging their manuscripts and their heads against the clean glass doors of the publishing industry. We a...

15. ARTICLE Why You Need a Manuscript Assessor
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...and tight world of publishing in Australia today, especially perhaps publishing for children, the role of the manuscript assessor tends to be undervalued. So you have your manuscript in hand, polishe...

16. ARTICLE Turning Clay into Sculpture
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... make something better. My editor, on the other hand, is not being paid to read eighteen versions of the same manuscript, and therefore needs to reign in my wild brushcutting tendencies. Oh, and if yo...

17. ARTICLE The Writer's Road
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...unleashed on the world! Unfortunately, finding a publisher has not been so easy. Last year I posted the first manuscript to publishers, both in Australia and the United States. After receiving the ump...

18. ARTICLE The Ultimate Secret to Success as a Novelist
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...imperative that your successes do not depend on other people’s opinions of you. If people you show your manuscript to have ‘negative’ comments, you can take them on board as positive...

19. ARTICLE Hey, Cut it Out!
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...her language related matters. But the skill that was so patently lacking in the editors I used was to see the manuscript as a whole form – from the detail of the language to the plausibility of ...

20. ARTICLE Ninety Nine Percent Perspiration
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...epression and he had to eat. You can persist enough to get your book published – keep sending out those manuscripts to everyone and anyone that will take it. Listen to the feedback, make th...

21. BOOK Get your Book off the Ground
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...plete stories? Or a brilliant idea that you could never turn into a book? Are you too scared to send off that manuscript? Well, author, Anthony Santoro and publisher, Suzanne Male, have been through ...

22. ARTICLE The Secret to Defeating Rejection
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...little hesitant about even allowing a friend or family member to read his or her work let alone sending off a manuscript to a publisher. To paint the picture for the uninitiated: Rejection for a write...

23. About Us
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...ou have a better chance of being hit by lightning, attacked by a shark or winning the lotto than getting your manuscript to print or even read by a publisher. Our best advice is to ignore that type of...