How to Be an Author tackles the tricky business of how to make a book cover that sells

Show Notes

Welcome to the first How to Be an Author in Australia edition of the Fremantle Press podcast, co-hosted by marketing and communications manager Claire Miller and publisher Georgia Richter.

In the first episode, Georgia and Claire share the details of Georgia’s new book she co-wrote with Deborah Hunn, How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia, and share the details of the How to Be an Author in Australia Facebook group. They talk to designer Nada Backovic about her tips on how to get the best cover for your book, writer Meg McKinlay tells authors to have a ‘frank conversation with themselves’ and the Comma Chameleon has a quiz that gets to the roots of obsolescence.

For the full show notes, go to fremantlepress.com.au.

Original music

Title Music and Comma Chameleon Theme by Mo Wilson (Ó 2021)

Sound engineering

Aidan D’Adhemar, Fremantle PA Hire

Production

Tiffany Ko, Claire Miller and Chloe Walton, Fremantle Press Marketing and Communications

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