Sydney-based authors and illustrators - Sydney Children's Hospital School is looking for someone to visit their K–12 students around Book Week and beyond. Small groups K-6 and 7-12, flexible dates, volunteer role. Details 👇
Anna Featherstone
@annafeatherstone.bsky.social
✍️ 🐝 🌱 ❤️ 📚 I help authors write, publish & market books | Publishing consultant Australian Society of Authors (ASA) | Non-fiction advisor & podcast host Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) | judge Australian Business Book Awards | Bold Authors
'If you were guaranteed your next book would be published…would you produce the same book or would it be different?' (Richard Yaxley at GenreCon) When you go to a writing conference and there's way too many great takeaways so you pop it all into a blog to share with other authors.
The Alliance of Independent Authors has launched the Indie Author Bookstore — a global discovery hub for independently published books across all genres. 📚
For some reason Test match cricket on in the background makes book editing soooo much easier.
The 2026 list of Australian Writers Festivals is here! All the latest dates, new festivals and your old favourites! Famous, debut and local authors to discover In glorious locations near and far. Which are your faves? annafeatherstone.com/writing-reso...
List of Australian Writers Festivals and Writers Conferences updated for 2026
If you’re a writer or reader planning a holiday, make it one for your creative spirit by planning it around a writers festival or writers conference! Australia has so many wonderful writers festivals,...
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So many parallels between musicians and authors when it comes to the demands of marketing www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...
From The Beatles to Taylor Swift: How music marketing became a beast
Remember when artists used to simply play on the radio and tour after releasing a new album? Oh, how times have changed.
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It's taken me a while to get this post together, but hopefully lots of food for thought on the current state of the book market in Australia. Some brilliant tips from literary agents and more for aspiring authors out there. #author #books annafeatherstone.com/the-australi...
The Australian Book Market August 2025: What Writers, Publishers and Literary Agents are Talking About
L-o-n-g blog post ahead with current (as at August 2025) insights on the Australian book market, book marketing, writing craft, AI, and what literary agents are looking for right now and how to approa...
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Have you or would you get a tattoo to celebrate the launch of your book? Spotted another author with a gorgeous one at this week's mini-writers festival in Castlemaine. annafeatherstone.com/poets-author...
Poets, Authors and a Day in Castlemaine
Enjoyed a literary feast today at a mini writers festival curated beautifully by Kristin and Graham from Northern Books at Buda Historic Home, Castlemaine. How did I end up in Central Vic? I’ve been o...
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So great to see! A win for writers and the community at large.
Alice Grundy@alicektg.bsky.social · last yr.The funding for the new literary programming, a SWF and SLNSW partnership, is $1.5m ... or nearly 20 per cent of the total literature budget for Creative Australia in 2023-4. It's a boon for Sydney lit-lovers, as I say in @theconversation.com With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for the edit.
The Australian Society of Authors has updated its recommended rates of pay for authors at events www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-upd...
ASA updates recommended rates of pay for public appearances - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA has conducted a review of recommended rates of pay for public appearances including festivals, libraries, and community groups.
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Non-fiction authors: between AI, short reads and global opportunities there's plenty on the horizon. I had a great convo with Matty Dalrymple from ALLi about non-fiction trends and an indie author approach. 👉 annafeatherstone.com/the-future-f...
The Future for Non-Fiction: Trends, Tidbits & Tactics for Indie Authors
As the Alliance of Independent Authors’ Non-Fiction Advisor, I recently sat down (across the world via Zoom) for one of my regular catch up sessions with ALLi Campaigns Manager Matty Dalrymple. We wer...
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Got plans today at lunchtime? Join me today at 1pm AEST to learn what works for me and how to maximise your presence on this platform. FRIDAY 13 June, 1PM AEST – “Exploring Bluesky” Facebook link is here: lnkd.in/gX46ETtU On Zoom: Meeting ID 893 7026 9599 Invite Link lnkd.in/gmUteBgS 🧵 1/3
As @adambecker.bsky.social makes clear in his new book, More Everything Forever, we’re not going to colonize Mars. What’s underneath the desire of tech oligarchs to take us there is deeply disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...
We're Not Going to Colonize Mars
On Adam Becker's new book and the people who are going to destroy the universe in the name of saving "humanity."
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"Authors shouldn’t have to always be so suspicious of unexpected outreach...That gushing out-of-the-blue review or fan letter may be exactly the day-brightening surprise it appears to be…but there’s also a non-zero possibility that it’s a prelude to a scam." writerbeware.blog/2025/05/09/t...
Two to Avoid: Book Order Scams and Fake Reviews - Writer Beware
Scammers are nothing if not inventive. As writers become wise to their techniques, they invent new ones. Here are two newish frauds that appear to be on the rise. As with most writing scams these days...
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Writers - there are some incredible pitching sessions, literary agent one-on-ones, signed books, manuscript appraisals & more up for auction today from the auslit and kidlit community…even a crocheted reading blanket by Hannah Kent airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
Crochet reading blanket, handmade by Hannah Kent, PLUS signed copy of any of her published books
Award-winning, best-selling author Hannah Kent will make you a crochet reading blanket in your colour preference PLUS send a personalised, signed copy of one of her books: Burial Rites, The Good Peopl...
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Any authors out there doing a 'climate edit', 'climate read' or 'climate pass' on their manuscripts? Loving this concept from albert and Sustainable Screens Australia - there's so much we writers can be doing to create a better world. Some info from the workshop...
Who/what/how/when…tell me the creation story of #posterpit please. So fun to see all these books and manuscripts getting the movie poster treatment.
A human chain of books! Town of Tuplin wins the book lover award today, forming a 300m human chain to help a bookstore move 9,100 books, one-by-one, to a new shop location. Alphabetised too! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one
A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront
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What a beautiful, poetic read by Georgina Woods in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
When sadness strikes I remember I’m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world | Georgina Woods
Nature will reclaim its place as a terrifying quasi-divine force that cannot be mastered. I find this strangely comforting
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Ahead of the federal election, the ASA is joining publishers, librarians, and booksellers in a shared election platform for the book industry. bookscreate.com.au
Election platform for books and reading • Books Create Australia
Australia’s authors, publishers, booksellers and librarians urge candidates to back books and reading during this Federal Election.
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Cannot work out if this is real, or if a disgruntled bar employee was having a joke (and printed and laminated multiple copies of said joke). Tasting notes of 'sea brine, brioche & mushroom'??? Is that a thing for a sparkling wine? Does that sound like something you'd actually want to drink?
The Australian Society of Authors gathering data about Meta's use of pirated books to train AI to further advocate on behalf of authors. #authorthreads docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Australian authors and illustrators impacted by the LibGen database.
On 21 March 2025 The Atlantic published a search tool which allows authors to search for their books in LibGen, one of the datasets that has been used to train Meta's generative AI system. It is anoth...
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Ooh, foodies in Sydney...a cookbook fare this weekend! "Help save quality cookbooks and books about food and wine from landfill and be part of the feel-good care, circular and creative economies...the books are curated and some are highly prized and collectable
Got out of my non-fiction comfort zone recently and hung out with writers of fantasy, romance, crime and sci-fi at a writers convention! Who knew you were all so fun...even with your scary (and sometimes kind!) dragons, vampires and shapeshifters! Highly recommend author cross-overs like this!
If you're in need of something pretty to look at right now, check out the 2025 longlist for The Australian Book Design Awards. I especially love checking out the series' covers to see how designers craft such strong brands. Which are your faves? abda.com.au/the-73rd-aus...
The 73rd Australian Book Design Awards Longlist - Australian Book Designers Association
ABDA is thrilled to present the Longlist for the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards. This year’s longlist showcases the most original, beautiful and inspiring books published in Australia in 2024. Let...
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Australian authors being asked by their publisher to sign over rights to their books to AI...not given much detail and only given 3 days to decide. #authorsky www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
Authors were asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’
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Author Steff Green at GenreCon giving perfectionist writers some breathing room. That doesn't mean permission to put out shoddy books, it means really working on your craft and getting the right mentoring, editing & proofreading support. Excellence doesn't need to lead to paralysis. #authorthreads
Am seeing more and more book deals being offered by traditional publishers to indie authors, and indie authors being able to carve out certain rights. It's great for publishers to get an injection of indie author marketing nous, great for authors to reach new readers, but...
