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The short story paradox

Writing and publishing short stories is a part of the writer’s apprenticeship – but publishers don’t believe short stories sell. This is a problem. If publishers say short story collections don’t sell, I would argue it’s not, for the most part, conspiratorial. They’re talking about sales figures, and you can bet if they did sell, short [...]
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Hope in 2010

My obligatory end of year post. I’m a blogger now, so when in e-Rome… The Australian literary scene is, for now, still quite traditional. Traditional meaning that people still buy books, lit journals continue to appear each quarter, every town worth putting on the map has a writers’ festival and, most importantly, there is still a [...]
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