1. INTERVIEW - ROBERT DOMINIC GENNARI - RISE OF A NEW SUN
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...d. Rather, he opted for a 60 piece orchestra with a 100-voice choir and created not only an album, but a novel, a film, a website and a whole universe. When you consider that, in making the album, he ...

2. Interview - Matthew Reilly
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... is a whole other dimension to his success than just the bestseller lists.   When Matthew creates a novel, he’s not just writing for you, the reader; he’s creating a book he not only ...

3. ARTICLE - REDISCOVERING THE JOYS OF WRITING
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...y, owner of the New York Sun, issued “Charles O’Malley” in 1840, the first full length novel published in America. Getting published relies on finished work.  Finished work come...

4. ARTICLE - CHOOSING A NEW FUTURE WITH SELF-PUBLISHING
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I have heard of now-successful novelists having collected enough rejection slips to wallpaper their front rooms. Frankly, I can’t see how this is possible. It’s not that I haven’t re

5. Anthony Santoro
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...keyboard to continue his stories. While living and working in the US, he started writing a crime-fiction novel loosely based upon his experiences in the debt collection industry. Although he wrote the...

6. READER FEEDBACK - GET YOUR BOOK OFF THE GROUND
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...I got from your book – and I've read a lot of these how-to books as well as other people's novels this past year – is letting others read it. Today I sent the manuscript to a forme...

7. ARTICLE - THE VALUE OF BAD BOOKS
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...cess Beckett found a compass: what he would be as a writer, by what he would not be: joining the English novel narrative. Sometimes it may be styles or familiar patterns as used by a writer that are b...

8. ARTICLE - ON GETTING PUBLISHED
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...sher the first right of refusal on my next work. When I asked to go my own way, they had me send my next novel through and, lo, they loved it. Now, please don't think I hate my publisher, quite th...

9. NOVEL - Last Decent Man - CHAPTER 1
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LAST DECENT MAN Chapter One The night was moonless, dark. The air was hot, humid, still. James’ car tore through it – gravel and dust spewed from the back tyres; he belted down the bush

10. NOVEL - Last Decent Man
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LAST DECENT MAN The New Crime Novel by Anthony Santoro Book Review: FM Editing & Reviews: The second Felice novel had me riveted from the first page...this was a cracker!  The cha

11. INTERVIEW - TONY PARK
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...ome location where I could be inspired but not distracted. So, in 1997, I quit full-time work to write a novel. As I had a good job so all my friends thought I was crazy. I took 6 months off to write....

12. BOOK REVIEW - Get Your Book off the Ground
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...ccomplished practitioners of the craft. Anthony Santoro is a professional writer with a number of crime novels and a ‘serious’ book under his belt, as well as experience in editing and, c...

13. ARTICLE The Real Gains of Literary Competitions
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... Prize for Young Australian Writers 2009 are now open for poems, short stories and the first chapters of novels.  The competition has two age categories: under 18’s and 18-24 years old as w...

14. ARTICLE Self-Publishing v Mainstream Publishers
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...ejection is enough of a catalyst to hang up the pen.   These days it is rare for unknown first-time novelists to get a publishing deal, let alone a big advance payment on royalties. There are tho...

15. ARTICLE You Wrote a Book - What Now?
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...l 'how to books' including, How to Write a Great Children's Book and The Easy Way to Write a Novel among other titles. You can contact him at rob@easywaytowrite.com ...

16. ARTICLE The Right Time to Write
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...t busy, too. It’s nearly May. Anthony Santoro is the author of the Mike Felice series of detective novels and co-founder of the Writers' Resource Centre. His essays on writing, wri...

17. BOOK A Year of Writing Inspiration
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...ration. Writing prompts are useful for improving your writing, getting inspiration for short stories or novels, story starters and giving your imagination a kick-start, and are even useful for provid...

18. ARTICLE Can that Novel Desire become a Reality?
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...ople out there who are competing against you to get their own book published. Also, writing - especially novel writing - is hard and takes lots of time; most writers don't earn much money and ther...

19. ARTICLE Coming to America - An Australian's Adventure in Publishing
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... of Mercy. I had often heard many authors say that it took them ten years or more to write their first novel and in my case that was close, nine in fact. I had also heard many Australian authors tel...

20. OPINION When Fiction becomes Fact
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...and think hard about what you find. Anthony Santoro is the author of the Mike Felice series of detective novels and is the founder of the Writers' Resource Centre. Read more about Anthony San...

21. ARTICLE How to Write a Biography - 12 Thoughts
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...m creating the fictional subject of Kinky, making my biography of a fiction-writer fiction; which like a novel can tell the truth, or aspects of the truth, but which is obviously not the life itself. ...

22. ARTICLE Master the plan
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...ting at a typewriter and “opening a vein”.  To dispel the rumours and wishful thinking, novel writing involves a little less pain and a little more understanding of technique and meth...

23. SEMINAR Novel Starter
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... the secret of how to achieve success. SESSION 2 Start to Finish This session covers the creation of the novel plot and tips on making time to write and getting from start to finish of a novel. SESSIO...

24. COURSE Fundamentals of Fiction Writing
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Ever wanted to ... Get started on a writing a novel and get feedback every step of the way Refine your writing skills with detailed relevant instruction Learn the art of writing a short story Find out

25. ARTICLE Wood Wind and Words
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... blessing. I hosted a work experience student for a week last year. She helped me transcribe my current novel from the written page to the computer. She could type faster than me, write with flair an...

26. ARTICLE Why You Need a Manuscript Assessor
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...essing manuscripts for ten years. We will assess draft after draft of your picture book, chapter book or novel, and when it is as polished as it can be, we then write a recommendatory letter to accomp...

27. ARTICLE Turning Clay into Sculpture
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...on. Still here? Let’s get on with it then. I’ve worked with the same editor on my past three novels, and we’ve come up with a system which works very well for both of us. In each cas...

28. ARTICLE The 10½ Commandments
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... have improved. Both worked for me. One million words into my career, I had just sold my first novels to the US. After twelve years, I was a New York Times bestseller. There are no gua...

29. ARTICLE The Ultimate Secret to Success as a Novelist
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... Times bestseller list. For most, publishing is a tough business. So many people have a dream to write a novel, but that dream can quickly be diluted. For a start, the demands of current booksell...

30. ARTICLE Hey, Cut it Out!
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... most recent experience of editing from a writer’s perspective was had through the evolution of my novel Apartment C, to be published in the UK by a small Oxford-based press, Kings Hart Books, i...