ASA's Guide to Getting Published: Understanding and navigating Australia's book industry by JULIET ROGERS
$29.95 AUD
Category: Writing
Writing a book is hard work. Knowing what to do next can be even harder. There are so many questions to be asked and answered. How does the publishing industry really work? How do you go about submitting a manuscript so that it gets further than the dreaded slush pile? Do you need the help of an agent a ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Writing
An inspiring work about creativity and resiliance from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend. 'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative explo ...Show more
How Words Get Good by Rebecca Lee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Catnip for booklovers - a funny, warm and fascinating insight into the world of making books, by an expert
The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History by Jack Dann
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfact ...Show more
The Storyteller's Workbook: An Inspirational, Interactive Guide to the Craft of Novel Writing by Adrienne Young, Isabel Ibañez
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Your companion to writing a novel from start to finish, with thoughtful prompts, calendars, and checklists to guide you along the way.Wherever you are on your journey as a writer, The Storyteller's Workbook is your one-stop shop for planning, writing, and pitching your novel. Find the space and freedom ...Show more
On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers by Geraldine Brooks
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writersIn this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers, Tim Winton. In the Wr ...Show more
The Writer's Hustle - A Professional Guide to the Creativity, Discipline, Humility, and Grit Every Writer Needs to Flourish by Joey Franklin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
The Writer's Hustle is a comprehensive guide to all the things successful writers do when they're not sitting at the keyboard. Drawing on wisdom from dozens of experienced authors, professors, students, and other writing professionals, this book offers pragmatic and systematic advice on the everyday pro ...Show more
An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory by Andrew Bennett
$22.99 AUD
$49.95 (53% off)
Category: Writing
Praise for An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory Sparkling, enthusiastic, and admirably well-informed' - HeleneCixous 'By far the best introduction we have, bar none. This unmatched book is for everyone: from those beginning literary study, through advanced students, and up to teachers ...Show more
The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and penc ...Show more