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Breakout 5: Ally Blake – How to hook your reader
How critical is your first page, really? If it doesn’t grab the reader / editor / agent on the first page, you are done. Step 1: Opening line Memorable Poetic …
Mary-Jo Putney: the noble art of storytelling
The internet has allowed anyone who wants to to be published, but doesn’t mean they have readers. Plenty of workshops on how to write, but not many on how to …
Breakout 4: World building panel
Mel Scott (moderator), Keri Arthur, Denise Rossetti, Alison Goodman, C. S. Pacat CS Pacal Writes fantasy with gay princes Keri Arthur Dark urban fantasy Alison Goodman Fantasy, sci fi, crime …
Publishers’ Moderated Panel
Pippa Roscoe – Harlequin UK Moving into London Bridge Megan Farrell – Tulin Publishing Digital first, selected print Women’s fiction, romance, chicklit Marty Green – Pantera Press Boutique Sydney based …
Opening Plenary 2: Mary-Jo Putney – Keynote address
Known for writing on controversial subjects. In 2014 got the Nora Roberts lifetime achievement award. Writing conventions – a group of introverts pretending to be extroverts for a weekend who …
Opening Plenary 1: Anita Heiss – Taking Your Niche to the Top
Anita Heiss is an academic, who started writing women’s fiction with indigenous heroines. She has been accused of dumbing down her work, betraying readers of her academic works. However wanted …
Breakout 3: Scrivener Workshop – Alison Stuart
Author Alison Stuart, runs Scrivener workshops for beginners. Scrivener is NOT a word processing program, it is a type of project management software to organise your writing and notes. How …
Breakout 2: Alison Goodman: Scene diagnosis
Alison Goodman is an Australian writer of Young Adult fiction, including YA historical supernatural fiction set in the Regency period. Her seminar looked at four different diagnositic tools that can …
Breakout 1: Chris Corbett – How stories work
Chris Corbett has written over forty hours of television – including episodes of MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES, STINGERS, THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES, BLUE HEELERS, THE SECRET LIFE OF US, MCLEOD’S …