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This article is part of a series. Read the next article in the series here > ‘I think Nick has more than a passing love for music. I get the feeling that music is something Nick would be doing if he wasn’t writing.’ So said the admirable, and charitable, Shane Nicholson in various weekend papers. Replace that final word ‘writing’ with ‘a talentless,...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Years ago, I worked with a publicist called Imogen, who taught me a lot. Read the book before the tour, she said. Work out what you’ve got to talk about. When you’re on radio, remember the host’s name and use it (occasionally). No ums, no ahs. Never tell anyone that the book took a month to write –...
It is Essential on This Tour that the Author be Fed as Much as Possible
by Nick Earls on 9 July 2009
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Don’t think this is easy. Morale signs up for a rollercoaster ride when an author goes on tour. When Bachelor Kisses was published in 1998, we launched in Brisbane on the book’s first Monday night to a packed room, and all felt good. The next day, my publicist and I got on the plane to Sydney. She pointed...
Okay, I’m the first to admit this job isn’t exactly what I’d expected. My teenage fantasy of the author job was perhaps something more like the way Roald Dahl did it – the garden shed, six sharp pencils, time for the bees to buzz and much quiet cogitation to occur. But not in this unquiet age. The truth of it probably isn’t like that at all though. Poor Roald was...
[caption id="attachment_248" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Nick Earls"][/caption]Nick Earls is the author of thirteen books, including bestselling novels such as Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. His work has been published internationally in English and in translation. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and Perfect Skin was the only novel nominated for...
