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COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Oxenbridge King’ by Christine Paice

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Oxenbridge King by Christine Paice, a beautiful tale that blends history, fantasy, and heartfelt emotion inspired by the real-life discovery of Richard III’s remains. Here’s the blurb: Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven;

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Q&A: Where does ‘smarmy’ come from?

Each week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness. It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness. This week, smarmy surplus… Q: Hi AWC,

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Pamela Freeman

Pamela is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than 50 books and novellas, plus short stories and scripts. She writes under two names: Pamela Freeman for children’s and fantasy, and Pamela Hart for mystery novels and historical fiction. Her most recent novel as Pamela Hart is An A-List for Death.

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Valerie Khoo

Valerie is an award-winning feature writer who is also CEO of the Australian Writers’ Centre. She writes for a range of corporate and consumer publications and was previously a regular writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for over 15 years. Valerie is also the author of seven books. Her latest books are So

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Cathie Tasker

Cathie is a fiction editor with over 25 years’ experience. She has mentored many manuscripts to publication and guided and motivated countless writers to develop their work. Cathie works as a tutor for the Australian Writers’ Centre and in freelance editing and project management, notably for Magabala Books. She has

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Judith Rossell

Judith is a full-time writer and illustrator of children’s books. Over the past 20 years, she has written 15 books and illustrated more than 80. Her work has been translated into 16 languages. Judith’s latest publications are The Midwatch, a middle grade novel filled with adventure, Play with your Plate, a picture book

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Natasha Lester

Natasha is an award-winning author of historical fiction. Her latest novel is The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard, a gripping homage to women and fashion. Her other recent novels include The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre, a fascinating tale that braids espionage and fashion in World War II Europe, and

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Bernadette Schwerdt

Bernadette has trained over 9,000 people in the art of writing words that sell. She was a senior account director and copywriter for global advertising agency Young & Rubicam Advertising and worked on campaigns for clients such as Apple, Amex, Optus and Colgate. In 2001, she founded the Australian School

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Candice Fox

Candice is an award-winning crime and thriller writer. Her latest novel is The Murder Inn, her eighth book in collaboration with bestselling author James Patterson. Her other recent novels include Fire With Fire and The Chase, an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Nevada desert, which was the winner of the Best Crime Book

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Julia Kuris

Julia works with self-published authors to create beautiful covers that sell! She is the founder of Sydney based design and branding studio designerbility.com.au. Julia has designed covers for some of Australia’s leading authors and entrepreneurs as well as designing covers for Finch Publishing, an independent publishing house based in Sydney.

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Allison Tait

Allison is an internationally published bestselling author of adventure novels for children. Also known as A.L. Tait, Allison’s latest book is The Fire Star: A Maven & Reeve Mystery published in 2020 by Penguin Australia. Allison’s previous series is The Ateban Cipher, which comprises The Book of Secrets and The

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L.A. Larkin

L.A. crime-thrillers have won her fans all over the world. Described as a superb ‘chiller thriller’ writer by Marie Claire magazine, and praised by the king of crime, Lee Child, Louisa writes stories with lots of plot twists and characters that surprise. She also writes humorous dog-detective mysteries as Louisa

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Deb Doyle

Deb is a consultant who runs three businesses: Editorial Training Services, Living Proof – Book Editing, and Draw On. She specialises in publication editing as well as in training company and government employees to improve their skills in grammar, punctuation, writing, editing, proofreading and plain English. She’s conducted courses for

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Carli Ratcliff

Carli is an award-winning editor, journalist, digital content specialist and UX writer. She edits and writes webpages, apps, mobile, voice and chatbots. Carli consults to a number of organisations on UX writing strategy. She established and has led the UX writing team at Qantas for many years. She now also

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