The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Eighteen My guest is Darrell Pitt, author of A Toaster on Mars and the Jack Mason Adventures, a series of five novels including The Firebird Mystery, which was a Notable book in the 2015 CBCA awards. He was the first self-published author for Text Publishing to sign on, and it was the…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Seventeen I know introverts working in the arts can struggle with self-confidence. How do we cultivate it within ourselves when so much of what we do is based on feedback, gatekeepers, stakeholders, audiences and more? It can be tricky. Books Mentioned Quiet by Susan Cain. (She also has the Quiet Revolution…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Sixteen This week, I dig a little deeper on one of the tips I gave on Episode 5, ‘6 Pieces of Advice for Beginner Writers‘, and that piece of advice is “own the time”. How do I do it when I have lots happening at once? And when does the…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Fifteen The ‘Three Fictional Characters’ meme lives on! (At least for a bit longer in this episode.) Book and Topics Discussed Crying in the Car (Sale price $12 – I’m running low on copies, just quietly…) Below are my three fictional characters. Don’t know who they are? Want to know why…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Fourteen When I wrote this post, I was in the middle of my 20K by 20 June challenge – a target I set myself in order to finish off my young adult novel, which I was able to do. It did pretty well at the time in terms of page…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Thirteen A very quick – and unusually recorded! – episode today. You’ll discover where the cover image for where On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take was taken (if you hadn’t already guessed). You can subscribe at iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud. If you are an android user, Soundcloud has an app…
The Creative Life Podcast Episode Twelve Excerpt: I would say that as far as this crowdfunding project has gone, 60% of the work I did was in the lead up to the launch date itself and 40% went into the subsequent marketing and promotion. In order to hit that launch day target I set for…
The Creative Life Podcast Episode Eleven I thought this would be a good time to talk about writing bucket lists because running a crowdfunding project has been one of the items on my own writing bucket lists. Now, my fondness for bucket lists, or Living List, as I’ve called my own, has been touched upon a…
The Creative Life Podcast Episode Ten This week’s guest is Penni Russon. She is author of The Undine Trilogy, The Indigo Girls, Little Bird and other titles including Only Ever Always, which was a winner of the West Australian Premier’s Book Award and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is currently undertaking a PhD and also blogs…
