Month: October 2014

Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Top 4 rules when submitting your manuscript to a publisher

If you think that manuscripts are judged solely on the merit of the story alone, we think you should be sitting down for this next paragraph.

It doesn’t matter how many on-trend zeitgeist-welding hipsters your story possesses, if a manuscript offends in some other way, it may never be read. We’re talking about things that distract a reader from delving any further.

You see, for editors, it’s hard work wading through countless manuscripts each week. And your goal as a writer is to not make that job any harder!

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Ep 32 Meet Kylie Ladd, author of ‘Mothers and Daughters’

In Episode 32 of So you want to be a writer, sleep in your favourite literary home, the Times to bring back typewriters…kind of, the business of digital life and death, we are the last generation to remember life without the internet, Moleskine embraces technology in their notebooks, blogging and the

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Are you the next big thing in YA?

Hachette wants to read your Young Adult manuscript. Yes you. So it’s time to pull your manuscript out of wherever it’s hiding and get it in shape!

From the press release:

Hachette Australia is proud to publish amazing YA authors from Australia and around the world, including Jessica Shirvington, John Marsden, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Ally Carter and James Phelan – and we’d love to add your name to that list. Throughout October, we will be accepting submissions of YA novels in all genres. If we fall in love with your manuscript, you will receive editorial feedback, and you may be offered a contract for publication.

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