Publishing - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

Whatever happened to Eleanor Catton?

300 drafts, seven years, and plenty of crying, apparently.

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How a New Zealand children’s book was censored by the Chinese.

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And here they are, the finalists for 42nd Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year: A Dog[…]

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How do you summarise your book in a couple of sentences? Impossible, right? You’ve written sixty-, seventy-, eighty-thousand words or[…]

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Despite her public persona, Dolly Parton is a savvy business-person, which probably explains a music career that’s now well into its sixth decade.

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A few days ago, I received an enthusiastic email from a publisher I’d never heard of before. The phrasing is[…]

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There’s an interesting interview with multi-award-winning local author (and current New Zealand Society of Authors’ president) Mandy Hager over on[…]

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Back in 2010, a survey of book buying behaviour in the US returned the following figures: Author reputation 52% Personal[…]

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If you use, or are considering using, Patreon, you might like to take a look at their Terms of Use first. Particularly this clause:

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Things didn’t go too well for Canadian author Robert L Barclay after his manuscript was accepted by “a commercial publisher[…]

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