by Jane Richards | Nov 10, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
“I read the manuscript at the weekend and I couldn’t put it down. We would like to publish.” Whenever we relay the contents of this email from the world’s biggest publisher, Random House, in one of our author talks, a buzz of excitement goes through the room. After...
by Narelle Ontivero | Oct 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Tasma, a little-known literary gem of colonial Australia, was the pseudonym of Jessie Catherine Huybers, later Mrs Charles Fraser, and afterwards Mrs Auguste Couvreur. As her collection of names suggest, Tasma lived an extraordinarily unconventional life as she...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Sep 30, 2017 | Article, Spotlights
Echo Publishing was initially formed in 1991. Since then, they have become a quality publisher in Australia, operating with a focus on producing interesting and unique stories by diverse voices. In 2015, Echo received it’s own identity and a mission to “expand its...
by Meg Brayshaw | Aug 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Above my desk I keep a black and white photograph of a woman sitting outside on a bench in a checked house dress, casually leaning next to an enormous pile of papers. The woman is Eleanor Dark, and the pile of papers is the manuscript for Storm of Time (1948), the...
by Narelle Ontivero | Aug 12, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
“The girlie loves her bath but the minute I take her out she screams and screams till by the time I have her dressed she has me reduced to tears also. Then she smiles complacently as if that were her sole object and falls into a lovely sleep. She and I both had an...
by Robyn Greaves | Jul 27, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Australian writer Henrietta Drake-Brockman was a significant figure in her time, particularly in her home state of Western Australia, where she regularly featured in the social pages of newspapers. Her prominence in literary circles and on bestseller lists at the time...
