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Writing family histories: what genre to use?
The genre you choose when embarking on writing about a personal or family history will depend on your writing skill, style or preference, and possibly also on the amount of factual information yo...
Poetry Editing Group Gippsland (PEGG) – who we are
Poetry Editing Group Gippsland (PEGG) is a group of poets based in Gippsland and surrounding regions, who are committed to writing, workshopping and perfecting their poetry, to publication standard...
Free offer: memoir by Joan Sammon
This article has been written and published on behalf of Joan Sammon, whose memoir A life: I am what I am! was produced by Sally-Anne Watson Kane in 2019. Background Joan Sammon, who grew up ...
Comparing: “traditional publisher”, “self-publishing services”, “hybrid publisher”, “vanity publisher” & “indie publisher”
What's the difference between a "publisher", "self-publishing services provider", "hybrid publisher", "indie publisher", and "vanity publisher"? Firstly, the first four models - publishing, self...
Our editors – memoirs, novels, poetry, non-fiction books; articles, reports
Our diverse team of editors, who live in Bendigo, Central Gippsland, Mornington and Melbourne, edits poetry, memoir, autobiography, family history, novels and short stories (fiction), non-fiction...
Portfolio: all the self-published books we have produced
We produce books 'from go to whoa': i.e., from handwritten or typed manuscript, or spoken story, through editing and graphic design, to self-published book stage. All of the following books ...
How to use your NDIS funds for coaching, writing and/or editing support
In Australia, if you are an NDIS participant, you can use your NDIS funds to pay for writing, coaching or editing services and support - as long as (a) the support is necessary because of your disa...
‘Hold your head up high’ by Garry Chippindall (dec)
Garry Chippindall began writing his memoir in 1999 when diagnosed with cancer. He sought help from life story writer Sally-Anne Watson Kane (owner/operator of OTTEP), and began regular scribing ses...
Buibere – volumes 1 and 2. Self-published oral histories of 22 East Timorese women, in Tetun and English
Acknowledgement Sally-Anne Watson Kane would like to acknowledge and thank her mentor, friend and bi'in, ita bo'ot Veronica Pereira, for the professional and cultural assistance and support she pr...
Self-publishing: writing front matter and end matter
So, you've written your manuscript - whether that be a novel, memoir, non-fiction, book of poetry, or something else - and you want to self-publish it. The next step in self-publishing is copy edit...