After successfully navigating the corridors of the legal profession for many years, Graham Blewitt turned his hand to writing. The result, Justice and War Crimes, captures the realities of prosecuting war criminals during the time of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. We sat down with Graham to chat about what led…
The talented Art Director, Graphic Artist, and Book Cover Designer (who we have the pleasure of working with at Aurora House), Donika Mishineva, joins us for a Q&A. If you’ve ever wondered how magical book covers get brought to life, now if your chance to find out… When did you start designing covers?I have been…
Helen Parry Jones will be visiting Australia in May 2018 If you would like to meet Helen, her events will give an opportunity to talk with her, see her in action, and learn about healing if you attend her Workshop. Book tickets if you would like to attend Helen’s events – they are selling fast.…
Glen sat down with Nyck Jeanes on North Coast Positive for an interview about his debut novel The Spirit of Love: a collection of short writings, poems and phrases written by a man who took himself into some of the darkest and most destructive depths one can go with drug and alcohol addictions. The collection of…
Mark Eyles, sat down with the Tasmanian Times to talk about his debut novel Mary’s Ireland: the battles of the Crimea and the streets of Belfast veil the simple life of young barmaid Mary Cannon. A Polish sailor, who lives in the shadow of Russian wars and religious conflict, enters her Shamrock Hotel. Mary feels his jade black…
Lannah Sawers-Diggins is the very talented author of Red Dust Dreams, a book that gives a voice to those living in the outback, revealing what life is really like ‘in the sticks’ through interviews, articles, and Lannah’s own experiences. She took a chance to spread Red Dust Dreams throughout the world and entered into the…
If you’ve written a novel, autobiography, or children’s book, Aurora House is currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts, and we’d love to hear from you! Now, some of you may be thinking you’d prefer to go with a ‘traditional’ publisher such as Penguin or Allen and Unwin, and it is still possible to submit unsolicited manuscripts to…
Consistency when writing a novel—actually, when writing anything—is an essential ingredient to creating a strong story. Your writers might get a little frustrated if you spend half the story telling them that your protagonist’s bedroom is the second door on the right and then suddenly start saying it’s the third door on the right, or…
Verbs are an essential part of any sentence, but not all verbs are created equal; there are two categories of verbs: weak and strong. Strong verbs should always be chosen over weak verbs. Strong verbs hold the power to grab the reader’s attention and convey exactly what is happening: creating mood and imagery in just…
If you’ve ever taken a writing course or read a book on how to write a novel, you would have been told ‘show, don’t tell’ at least once—perhaps several hundred times. But what exactly does it mean? Telling is when you tell the reader facts: what’s happening, how someone feels, even what’s about to happen…
