Day: July 19, 2022

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

How to connect with publishers at a writers’ festival

What are the dos and don’ts about approaching publishers at a festival? Australian Writers’ Centre CEO Valerie Khoo lays out the tips you need to make a good impression and find the publisher that’s the right fit for your book. 

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Video: Kelly Rimmer on her novel ‘The German Wife’

Kelly Rimmer is the author of historical and contemporary fiction, including The German Wife, The Secret Daughter, The Things We Cannot Say, and The Warsaw Orphan, with more than 2 million copies of her novels sold to date. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages and have appeared on bestseller

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