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  • Your number-one book marketing tool

    Authors often struggle with book marketing or get frustrated with poor returns despite spending more time marketing than writing. Of all the lousy advice a budding author can find online, marketing advice is by far the worst. In one 10-minute search, it’s possible to find several examples of so-called ‘marketing secrets’ regurgitated ad nauseam, many…

  • Davis wins inaugural £1500 Selfies Award for a self-published novel

    In the UK, Jane Davis’ self-published novel Smash All the Windows has won the inaugural Selfies Award for a self-published work of fiction. Smash All the Windows explores the emotional lives of the families of victims in the wake of a disaster. It is Davis’ eighth novel. The judging panel was ‘impressed not only with the quality of…

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  • Upcoming events

    February Perth Writers Week, (19-25 February) Perth, WA. Woollahra Poets’ Picnic, (27 February) Sydney, NSW. March Dunedoo Bush Poetry Festival, (1-4 March) Dunedoo, NSW. Adelaide Writers’ Week, (3-8 March) Adelaide, SA. Writing and Writers of Gippsland, (5-9 March) Paynesville, Vic. New Zealand Festival: Writers and Readers stream, (8-11 March) Wellington, NZ. Somerset Celebration of Literature,…

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  • Upcoming events

    December Gulgong Folk Festival (28-31 December) Gulgong, NSW. January ABPA Golden Damper Awards Bush Poetry Performance Competition, (23-27 January) Tamworth, NSW. Watch for SCBWI Books From Your Backyard February Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, (8-9 February) Darwin, NT. Australian Comic Arts Festival, (9-11 February) Canberra, ACT. Festival of the Photocopier and Zine…

  • Reader survey closing soon!

    If you would like to have your say in the Independent Publishing reader survey, you still have time. The survey closes on 31 December 2017, and only takes a few minutes to complete. We appreciate all the responses so far. Thanks for helping us create a better newsletter. To participate in the survey, click here. If…

  • Double act: Hybrid authors on publishing both ways

    A new breed of hybrid authors are experimenting with self-publishing alongside traditional publishing. Jackie Tang and Andrea Hanke, editors of book industry newsletter Books+Publishing, spoke to John Birmingham, Judy Horacek and Kylie Scott about their self-publishing ventures. John Birmingham’s self-published novel A Girl in Time—the first in a near-future, dystopian series that imagines the US under…