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Back to Book Making

  • December 15th, 2009
  • Posted in Life
  • By Ryan

In the same week that I gored myself, I accepted a job offer from Wakefield Press. I’m visiting Brisbane for Christmas, then I’ll be heading to Adelaide to resume a seat at my old desk, to make books full time again. I won’t be needing any presents this year. This may come as a surprise to [ READ MORE ]

Figuring Things Out: Getting help from those who already know

I emailed a couple of Melbourne agencies this week, chasing work experience. I got two hits back, one from Curtis Brown telling me they don’t take work-experience kids. I’ve canvassed this way before, when I was getting into production in Adelaide, and the pattern was much the same. I expected one response to be straight and [ READ MORE ]

Online Career Building For Epic Travelling Win!

I just found these two grouse websites, Brazen Careerist and Location Independent Professionals. I’ve been thinking of mobilising Paine Management for some time, and it’s been great to bump into a bunch of like-minded souls: people who want to be financially (and locationally?) independent. Each of them have great blogs – in fact, Brazen Careerist [ READ MORE ]

HTGYST | How To Get Your Shit Together: The art of pulling your socks up

I am currently trying to get my shit together, and the likelihood of it ever happening is feeling increasingly elusive as I try to plan and work at the same time. Meanwhile I’m reading The Land of Plenty by Mark Davis1, which isn’t helping. He’s going on about the ‘prosperity scandal’ and the mythologies that have [ READ MORE ]

To Win, Or Not To Win

There’s a really good agent blog coming out of Sydney, called Call My Agent! The anonymous blogger, Agent Sydney, posts and answers fictional queries based on what are, presumably, emails that an agent might receive, in a pithy and sometimes scathing manner. In a post about competitions and rights, Agent Sydney dishes out such pithy advice [ READ MORE ]

Ploughing Author Intentions

I have a question to ask that seems simple, but which grows increasingly complex when you think about it. How do you consider author intention when reviewing a novel? I’ve come up ambivalent about a book I’m reviewing. When this happens I like to make note of the positives and negatives and try to round up [ READ MORE ]

How To Sell Books And Influence People

I’m really glad to be working on a book that’s not government funded. A stack of money has been poured into this and we need to earn the money back to pay off the debt. This just came to mind when I was talking to a guy who put out a bunch of comics with a [ READ MORE ]

Riffing Off a Meeting at the Breakdown Press Bunker

I got inspired about my career after meeting Tom and Lou from Breakdown Press about me possibly managing the sales and distribution of their forthcoming title, How to Make Trouble and Influence People[ READ MORE ]

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