Author: Lisette Ogg Created: 27/11/2008 12:06 PM
The Empty Page is an opportunity; a place of creation, where new ideas germinate, messages are conveyed, and characters begin to grow. The Empty Page Blog is one of the TOop 50 writing blogs in Australia. As the offical blog of the Queensland Writers Centre, this blog offers opportunity, latest news, opinions and resources on the writing and publishing industry.

The blog tour rolls on, this time with Joanne Schoenwald. She did something really interesting last year, when she made her debut manuscript Woodford Virgins available to download for free.

Joanne lives in Blackbutt, south-east Queensland, Australia, with her husband Alwyn and a range of animals. When she wakes in the morning, she claims to lie in bed for as long as possible because once she is up, she initiates a chorus of meows, whines, clucks and neighs from the fur kids asking for breakfast. Check out her writing space here.

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QWC CEO Kate Eltham was invited to attend the Digital Publishing Symposium in Sydney recently. Videos of the conference are are now available to view online.

We particularly recommend you watch:

Stephen Page (Faber & Faber)
Michael Tamblyn (Kobo Books)
The State of Play in Australia (Elizabeth Weiss, Victoria Nash and Susan Hawthorne)

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Lots of people have a blog, but how do you turn your blog into a vibrant online following? Erica Bartle, former Deputy Editor of Girlfriend magazine and editor of Girl With a Satchel, 2009 Bloggie winner of Australia’s Most Popular Blog Award, explains how she built a readership of 30,000 visitors a month and what you can do to build and communicate with your online audience.

What: So you think you can blog: a workshop for turning your ordinary blog into an extraordinary platform When: Sunday 28 March Where: The Edge, State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Brisbane. Workshop runs from 12pm until 4pm. Cost: $55 Bookings: www.qwc.asn.au or 07 3842 9922 When: Sunday 28 March Where: The Edge, State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Brisbane. Workshop runs from 12pm until 4pm. Cost: $55 Bookings: www.qwc.asn.au or 07 3842 9922

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Meg Vann is an aspiring novelist, Hachette Manuscript Development Program short-list participant, super Mum and AWMOnline's Coordinator.He second novel-length project will be getting some serious attention soon, during YON (Year of the Novel, for the uninitiated) with Trent Jamieson. Here, she shares a a pic of her writer’s desk as part of this blog's Project: Bringing the Ugly series of writers' desks. So here’s where she’ll be hanging out a lot over the next ten months…

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Australian law firm Simpsons Solicitors has released a brief summary of the proposed amendments to the Google Books Settlement and includes flowcharts and timelines to show how things are scheduled to proceed and what Google can do with your books if the settlement proceeds as currently proposed:

http://www.mondaq.com/australia/article.asp?articleid=93790

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Follow AWMOnline's twitter stream to win free tickets to an event in Brisbane with Donna Mulhearn author of "Ordinary Courage: My Journey to Baghdad as a Human Shield". Once you've followed AWMOnline, email events@avidreader.com.au

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A free WEBcast, presented by Digital Book World

The publishing industry is undergoing an extreme transformation, and there are many innovative thinkers challenging traditional thinking and helping push that transformation forward.

Digital Book World (DBW) Conversations pairs two respected thought leaders for a 60-minute discussion on the future of the publishing industry, and what they're doing to ensure they have a place in it.

DBW Conversations: Richard Curtis & Richard Nash
Wednesday, Apr 7 2010 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM AEST, or check for timezone here.

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Here at Queensland Writers Centre, we're "Loving the Ugly", which, according to Christopher Currie is not a court-ordered Community Service, but rather a peek into the private creative spaces of some Queensland writers as part of our rather wonderful Blog Tour.Hoorah! He agreed  to unveil the ugly reality of his writing space, without quite realising that by the time it came to blog about it, he wouldn't actually be at home. so he's posted two places. One where he's writing now. And his regular gig. Look closely, people. Look closely.

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Enhanced Editions are very cool. They say they make tailor-make ebooks for the iphone "the way nature intended." Not only stacked full of brilliant, easy-to-use features, and hours of multimedia extras, but crafted with the editorial insight that only publishers can bring to a book. Ohhhhh.....aaaahhhhhh.... *want*

 

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Hooray! Finally, a writer with a messy space. Well, kind of messy. "Lots of people have romantic notions of writers’ studies," says magazine, book and website editor and playwright. Katherine Lyall Watson. "I certainly did. But I soon realised that waiting for the perfect environment would mean I’d wait forever to start writing." Check out her space here.

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