Work Experience
Doing my Year 10 work experience at Busybird has inspired me more than I could have hoped. With 80s music playing constantly in the background, it makes the atmosphere even … Continued
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My Week at Busybird
Staring at a blank page, writing a blog about … anything? At first, I was expecting Busybird to be a normal publishing business, very formal, very bland. When I walked … Continued
The Ego in Writing
Years ago, a forty-something friend went to an open workshop at his local library. This friend had been heavily published, worked as a writing mentor, and knew as much (if … Continued
Books Don’t Sell Themselves
Too often in publishing, we encounter authors who think their job is done the moment their book is printed. Then they come back in a year’s time to find they’ve … Continued
No Guarantees
There are some real sharks out there in the world of self-publishing. I’m a writer – and have been for almost forty years. Kev Howlett, the owner of Busybird Publishing, … Continued
Stepping Into Genre Fiction
The past few years of my life have been spent knee-deep in a literature degree. Countless hours have been dedicated reading and studying literary fiction, from Wilde to Woolf to … Continued
Learning and Growing
“You need to write a blog. It can be about anything.” Those were the infamous words spoken, yet I still didn’t know what to write. I went through many examples … Continued
Writer Beware
Recently, Ballarat-based self-publisher, Shawline Publishing, collapsed amid rumours of impropriety. Various news outlets, such as the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, and the Ballarat Courier, have written stories about it. … Continued