What’s your perspective?

I’ve had a couple of manuscript assessments lately for the same story, as well as feedback from critique partners. It’s interesting looking at their comments and thinking about the perspective their comments come from.

Different comments have been on different aspects of the story, and this comes for most stories I’ve written. Whenever I receive feedback, I try and keep this in mind. [Read more...]

Writers Group fun

We’ve just got home from a fantastic night at the Monash Writers Group (hi to any members of the group stopping by). Tonight we split up into groups – one looking at script writing and the other looking at memoir. I was in the latter group.

One thing that I have wanted to do for a long time is to share my journey with post and ante natal depression. There are so many insights that come with hind sight that I think it may be useful to other women. I have picked up some great tips to get started. [Read more...]

How important is competition?

About 15 years ago, I wrote a couple of books about bridal showers and baby showers. In the late 1990s, eBooks weren’t a big thing and self publishing was expensive as print on demand technology wasn’t what it is now.

Recently I found the book proposals I wrote along with rejection letters. Most of them said the only reason they were rejected was because they didn’t think there was a market for them. Another thing to note is that in the late 1990s, baby and bridal showers weren’t as popular in Australia as they are now. [Read more...]