The old traditions in publishing are changing. Once it was an industry with a lot of gatekeepers. It still is, but with eBooks and self-publishing…
* According to the OED, a journeyman is ‘a person who, having served an apprenticeship is qualified to work in an art, craft, or trade,…
Turkish Delight This coming September, along with award-winning photographer, Dale Neill, I will be taking a small group of people to Turkey on a…
When Penguin, the publishers, commissioned me to write ARTHUR’S WAR, my agent persuaded them to put my name on the front cover. That’s pretty unusual…
‘To the Making of Books there is no End’ This, for anyone who’s interested, is a quote from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the King…
ACCOUNTANTS GET IT WRONG Accountants are well known for abusing the language. Maybe it’s because they don’t consider the language to have any value. Anyway,…
Why Must I Look At Pretty Women? Recently there was an article in the Inquirer section of The Australian, Australia’s national newspaper, written by the…
Off on Sunday to The Katherine Susannah Pritchard Writers’ Centre housed in a fine weatherboard house in the hills east of Perth. Someone who should…
BOOK SIGNINGS For a writer, book signings can range between a confirmation that somebody out there likes you, to a deeply traumatic realisation that not…
ARTHUR’S WAR – A story of survival I can rarely talk about the books I write. Like most ghost-writers I am bound by tough…
