Kapow
a shot in the arm
It’s been an exciting fortnight for me and I thought I’d drop a quick newsletter to update those who haven’t caught my excitement (which I dare say isn’t many as I’ve banged on about a lot this week.
My manuscript ‘The Needleworker’s Daughter’ was longlisted for the Queensland Writer’s Centre Publishable program. It’s a validating moment for this manuscript that I have been working on for the last seven years (although a friend did remind me last night that when I first found the early thread that made me want to write the story, I said it would take me ten years, so that gives me another three to play with…). As a writer, there are long stints with nothing so things like this are like a shot in the arm.
Now, to many writers in Australia, being long listed in the Publishable program means something, but to the non writers on the receiving end of my (at times, nonsensical) newsletter, it means diddly squat.
The Publishable program is a manuscript developm…
