Category: Events

I’ve got a bunch of appearances and online stuff coming up so I thought I’d put it all in one post so you (but mainly I) can keep track.

Upcoming blog posts/interviews:

Alpahareaderblogspot interview

Women’s History Month 2011: Gillian Pollack

Online chat at ASFFWA – March 9th

Coolshite podcast with Yunyu – March 7th

Random House blog series

Book Junky interview

Upcoming Events:

Book Tour Sydney – Ultimo Library, Galaxy Books, Kinokuniya Books (see events in the right sidebar)

Victoria Point Library, Brisbane – 31/3/11, 6-7pm (right sidebar)

Book Tour Brisbane – events TBC

Supanova Brisbane/Melbourne – confirmed

Book Tour Melbourne – events TBC

I’ll update this post as more things are confirmed.

Just heard about this really awesome sounding writer’s course that’s coming to Australia and am helping Allen and Unwin get word out about it. I’ve had a look through the course program and it seems very comprehensive and in depth. There will be guest spots from David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Bernard Cohen and Charlotte Wood and individual consultations as well.

After great success in London, Paris, Dublin and Toronto, Faber has partnered with Allen & Unwin in Australia to offer courses in creative writing. The first is ‘Writing a Novel’ which will be taught by Kathryn Heyman and James Bradley and will run from March to August 2011 at Allen & Unwin’s Crows Nest offices. What’s exciting about it is the hands-on nature of the classes, the publishers and agents reading night and the expectation that participants will finish the course with a complete first draft of their novel. There’s more information about the course outline on our website: www.faberacademy@allenandunwin.com

And to celebrate the Academy coming to our fair shores, I have two copies of  Dracula in Love to giveaway. All you have to do is email me through this website with the names of the two course directors. Easy Peasy!

If you’re serious about becoming a professional writer then you should get to this:

This January 13-­15th in Salt Lake City, six international bestselling authors are presenting the second Superstars Writing Seminar, a full-blown ³boot camp² of the things you need to know to be a career professional writer.

Three days of intensive instruction taught by Kevin J. Anderson, Brandon Sanderson, Dave Wolverton , Rebecca Moesta, Eric Flint, and special guest instructor Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Topics include:

Economics of Commercial Publishing. How Editors Look at Manuscripts, Novels, and Short Fiction. Dissecting a Book Contract. How to Read and Understand a Royalty Statement. Dirty Secrets: What You Need to Know About Being a Professional Author. How to Leverage Your Intellectual Property.  Balancing Acts: Writing World and Real World.  Agents. Networking and Self-Promotion for Authors.  Understanding E-Books.  Pitching the Big Proposal.  How to Increase Your Writing Productivity. Two Heads Are Better than One: Collaborations. How to Get an Edge with New Media.  Movies, TV, and Authors and more, including open Q&A sessions, a special limited-seating VIP banquet to get to know the instructors, and plenty of networking opportunities among the teachers, other writers, and fellow students.

The Superstars Writing Seminar is a practical, no-nonsense course on business topics for the professional writer.  The seminar doesn¹t teach you how to write, but how to be a writer.

For further information, see www.superstarswritingseminars.com

And if you can’t make it to Salt Lake City then follow Kevin J Anderson’s series of essays on writing.