MyWriting - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

Four publishing lessons in four minutes

In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]

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Executive Summary 1: There’s a crash coming. Executive Summary 2: Poisoned chalice, anyone? Whatever you might think of John Key[…]

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A while back I asked Lee Child a question. Not in person, but via a Goodreads author promotion, and he[…]

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My father died seven years ago today. A few weeks ago, a friend recalled the eulogy I read out at[…]

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I finished Nanowrimo this morning with a count of 50,485 words in 30 days. I like to keep a record[…]

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I’ve just spent the last two days reading through the 80,000 word novel I wrote in six-and-half weeks last year.[…]

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As I mentioned last month, I only managed 50,503 words in November. That was enough to “win” NaNoWriMo, but it[…]

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I made it! As you can see from the glorious graphic, I’m officially a NaNoWriMo “winner” – along with 42,008[…]

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Barring major accident or illness, I’m pretty confident about completing NaNoWriMo now. But not the novel! It feels like I’m[…]

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The novel’s still ticking along nicely. Each day, with no planning at all, more of the plot and characters emerge.[…]

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