This feedback session may only be booked by people attending at least one day of StoryArts Brisbane. This can be either the Saturday or Sunday program.
Please book no more than two editor/agent sessions initially to allow everyone to have a turn.
Cost: $70 Book Links members (with discount code applied at checkout) and $100 for non-members
Book before: 30 September 24
Kristy Bushnell is an experienced freelance book editor and mentor specialising in children’s and young adult literature. She has worked with award-winning and bestselling authors and illustrators such as Peter Carnavas, Kate Gordon, Steven Herrick, Tamsin Janu, Lucia Mascuillo, Nova Weetman and Claire Zorn, and publishers such as the University of Queensland Press, Omnibus Books, Allen and Unwin, Scholastic, HarperCollins and Walker Books. She has served as chair and panel member on the Queensland Literary Awards Children’s Book Award and is an alumni of the Australian Publishing Association’s Residential Editorial Program (REP). Kristy has extensive experience in mentoring, structural editing, copy editing, proofreading and assessments, and provides carefully considered and encouraging editorial advice to help authors realise their story’s potential and assist them to meet their publishing dreams.
Kristy is giving feedback on any genre, any subject. No preferences.
After you book this session, check to see how to submit your work and follow the instructions. https://booklinks.org.au/
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South Brisbane, Qld 4101
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