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How to Organize a Writer’s Festival

WooHoo! I’ve unleashed Stage One planning for Logan Writers Week, 2011.

Ever considered organizing a community event or a writer’s festival? … First seek expertise, support and advice … Plan in graduated steps.

Logan Writers Week Committee Jodi Cleghorn, Stephanie Azri, Peter Garbett, Cate Black and I formed a steering committee dedicated to making Logan […]

Aim Sky High for 2011

For 2011, I’m making my own luck and capitalizing on every opportunity presented to me. With only two days of 2010 to go, I’m visualizing what I really want to achieve in 2011. … I’m resetting my writing and personal goals.

I’m planning ahead, every step of the way, setting realistic objectives and grabbing every […]

Empower the Teacher Within

When parents at my school harassed me to breaking point, I lost my self-esteem and all my power.

Slowly my personality withered and I developed Bipolar Disorder.

Now thank God, I’ve recovered and writing ME AND HER: a Memoir of Madness became part of the cathartic healing process.

I’m a multi-genre writer who specialized in […]

I love my Picky Bitches!

Thank God for the Picky Bitches in my writers life! Just received critiques from my writers group for the first two chapters of Space Kids Book 2 … Josh vs. Lord Terra. My hands trembled with excitement as I read their notes and suggestions. Is it a winner?

My writing buddies delivered positive feedback […]

Requested!

A children’s publisher requested Josh and the It, my kids’ sci-fi chapter book I turned a query letter into a request for my manuscript. How?

For the last month I’ve researched children’s publishers, pouring over the writer’s bible, Australian Writers Marketplace, and publisher’s websites including their submission guidelines. I discovered my manuscript was too short […]

My First PAID Speaker Gig!

On Saturday I spoke to a welcoming crowd at the Gold Coast Writers Association. The topic? … My dual passions … mental health and creative writing and the parallel journey they’ve taken me over the last five years.

Back in January, Jeannie Barker, president of GCWA invited me to choose any meeting date in 2010 […]

Stress Less in Mental Health Week

Woohoo! Today is 10.10.10 and World Mental Health day. Life’s challenging … We all lead stressful lives … It’s time to take positive steps to Stress Less.

How can we reduce our stress? … My Top # 5 Tips • Infuse laughter into your life … Laugh out loud • Breathe slowly and deeply to […]

Elevator Pitch

How do you write a Elevator Pitch that will sell your book to a Publisher or an Literary Agent? You create an unforgettable blurb that will catch their attention … A snappy sentence that contains who and what, with a very captivating why. Think …What’s your story really about? What makes your story unique? … […]

July’s Jumpin’

What a month already! July’s proving to be my most successful month yet! On Tuesday, the Society of Editors Mentoring Scheme accepted ME AND HER: a Memoir of Madness into their program. Thank you Queensland Writers Centre for recommending this program to me. xx

What does that Mean? A Team of Editors will examine my […]

4 Offers. Which one First?

Over the weekend, I received four irresistible invitations … an unbelievable offer to write an article for an eNewsletter with a readership of 12K … one for an in-depth interview … another for a Skype podcast interview… and one from a teenage writing prodigy to be a Guest Blogger.

Yesterday Alex Jay, pen-named BJ Cullen, […]