*parents but yes 😉

Thanks for the catch up! I feel like I missed a few vital episodes focusing on my own soap opera (Australian politics! The current season is riveting!)

Thank you! Your wonderful Writing as Poaching crew will absolutely be the right audience for this! ✨📚

I’ve read some fascinating research that suggests that the transition from longhand first drafts to typewriters made a massive difference: I’ve tried both and would believe it!

Thank you! Very aligned! ✨📚

Sending you all the publishing luck vibes! ✨📚

Oh noes! Do keep complaining to the senior editors—eventually they may get annoyed enough and send it to a different outsourced production company (which is where we got to in the end). I had to redo a lot of work, but it did get done and progress!

We had a similar mess with a previous book—I got my series editor to complain to the commissioning editor which went further up the chain and produced much better results than author and production caught in a loop.

💯 The perfect time to get it out there! X meets Hamnet (now a major motion picture) is 🤑🤑🤑 talk.
And the world needs more work that’s beautifully written.

[Apols for advice giving feim random online stranger]
More importantly, you can now re-spruik your beautiful novel with a recent comp!
& keep that fire in your heart! Spite is the best fuel for literary careers