Catherine Thorsen | Developmental Editor

Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.

27.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How to Get Out of Your Own Way When Writing Author Maggie Smith discusses the “good trouble” of working on a piece until it’s truly finished and her new creativity advice book, Dear Writer.

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22.04.2025 09:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A New Scam to Watch For: "Pre-Paid" Agent Commissions - Writer Beware As I’ve discussed to my readers’ exhaustion, as well as my own, impersonation scams are rife these days. Scammers are impersonating real, reputable literary agents, publishers, editors, film production companies, bookstores, and organizations with out-of-the-blue phone and email solicitations purporting to offer representation, or publication, or a big budget movie–but in reality, the goal isRead More

New Writer Beware blog post: there's a new scam technique in town: the "pre-paid" literary agent commission. A look at the fake agencies and equally fake associated business names that have practiced this fraud via fabricated publishing contracts writerbeware.blog/2025/03/28/a...

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I feel your pain. My office manager is a cat. It's barely 9am and she's already made me leave my desk twice to come look at birds.

27.03.2025 01:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I want the story to have a rhythm that keeps moving forward. Because that's the whole point of telling a story. It's got to move. -Ursula K. Le Guin ... Be Writing.

About Books: "I want them to be available, I want them to be read, I want them to be argued about, I want people to cry over them, I want people to get angry with them, I want people to love them."- Ursula K. Le Guin #amwriting #Writing ~Words for all of us writers. - Wrtr #author #writer #authorsky

19.03.2025 01:48 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Relatable Snoopy Comic Panels About Writing From tapping away at those keys to receiving "constructive" feedback, Snoopy hard at work on his typewriter is relatable content.

Relatable Snoopy Comic Panels About Writing- bookriot.com/snoopy-comic...

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