Sydney-based Irish author Gerdette Rooney recently published her first book, Womadic Wanders: Stories of a compulsive traveller
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30-min Self Publishing session: Getting your book printed
Are you keen to get your book printed but confused when it comes to all the different options? How do you get from a Word document onto the shelves of Dymocks?
30-min Self Publishing session: Kindle options
A big question for many authors is whether to enrol in Kindle Select or not. So why might you want to choose it?
A name
What is in a name? That, which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
30-min Self Publishing session: Pen names
SelfPubAus is holding a series of super-quick 30-minute “micro sessions” to cover specific topics relating to Self Publishing.
SelfPub lunch MeetUp
It was great to see familiar and new faces at the first SelfPubAus lunch MeetUp in Sydney last week. Lots of topics got discussed
“IT” – a poem set to music
I have a poem I wrote some time ago for which a friend of mine, composer Heidi Arapa, made beautiful music.
First SelfPub physical MeetUp
Several current and future authors met up in Chatswood for SelfPub Australia’s first physical get together. It was a chance to catch up and plan our publishing goals for 2020
Writing about other cultures
Do you have the right to write about a country or culture that isn’t your own? Knowing. It’s the key word. Not where your passport says you’re from.
The Monkey Collective
In 2017 I won a short story competition run by Lane Cove magazine The Village Observer