New Stories
  • Tell us a little bit about yourself – Where did you grow up? What was your early career? What do you do when you’re not writing? I grew up in central western NSW on 32500 acres of wheat, sheep and cattle. I intended to become a grazier, but I dreamed...0December 21, 2011

    Meet the Author: Terrie Anderson

    Tell us a little bit about yourself – Where did you grow up? What was your early career? What do you do when you’re not writing? I grew up in central western NSW on 32500 acres of wheat, sheep and cattle. I intended to become a grazier, but I dreamed…

  • The penal colony of New South Wales, 1822. Ann Rumsby, a beautiful convict girl, was brought before a panel of magistrates. They had evidence, they claimed, that her master had sexually molested her. Despite being browbeaten for five hours, Ann refused to testify against her master, and sturdily maintained that...0December 16, 2011

    The ‘Flogging Parson’ and the Convict Girl by Pauline Montagna

    The penal colony of New South Wales, 1822. Ann Rumsby, a beautiful convict girl, was brought before a panel of magistrates. They had evidence, they claimed, that her master had sexually molested her. Despite being browbeaten for five hours, Ann refused to testify against her master, and sturdily maintained that…

  • The tiny ‘Queenslander’ cottage with its sweep of wooden stairs and widely spaced rails, looked badly in need of paint. Roger had not been able to explain to his mother exactly why he’d bought the house. Granted, it was cheap but it needed everything replacing which would take all his...0December 11, 2011

    Coincidence by Terry Spring

    The tiny ‘Queenslander’ cottage with its sweep of wooden stairs and widely spaced rails, looked badly in need of paint. Roger had not been able to explain to his mother exactly why he’d bought the house. Granted, it was cheap but it needed everything replacing which would take all his…

  • When I went to a community policing session on stranger danger at the primary school attended by my two older children in 1980, I had no idea it would inspire my first published picture book and bring me five minutes of fame. The P&C Association had organised the session for...0December 5, 2011

    An elephant, a tiger and five minutes of fame byTeena Raffa-Mulligan

    When I went to a community policing session on stranger danger at the primary school attended by my two older children in 1980, I had no idea it would inspire my first published picture book and bring me five minutes of fame. The P&C Association had organised the session for…

  • My name is Penny Garnsworthy and I love to read. When I read I like to escape from the reality of day-to-day life, to meet interesting people and visit exotic locations, whether here on earth or in other worlds. And I love to have a problem to solve. It’s the...0December 1, 2011

    Meet the Author: Penny Garnsworthy

    My name is Penny Garnsworthy and I love to read. When I read I like to escape from the reality of day-to-day life, to meet interesting people and visit exotic locations, whether here on earth or in other worlds. And I love to have a problem to solve. It’s the…

  • I wrote a poem that sang a song of rhyme and rhythm and transformed the waiting sheet. I sifted syllable and sound and shifted words around to create a work complete. I conducted groups of letters to a beat of metered feet that marched along in rhythmic harmony. On my...0November 23, 2011

    The Poem by Teena Raffa-Mulligan

    I wrote a poem that sang a song of rhyme and rhythm and transformed the waiting sheet. I sifted syllable and sound and shifted words around to create a work complete. I conducted groups of letters to a beat of metered feet that marched along in rhythmic harmony. On my…

From the First Edition Catalogue
  • That special time of year is fast approaching and here are a few books from the First Edition Online Bookshop especially designed to celebrate Christmas. Let’s Celebrate Christmas! Additive Free. After the success of her first book Let’s Party! Additive free, Melanie Avery has produced another book especially for Christmas...

    Children’s Book Fair: Especially for Christmas

    Posted on November 27, 2011 | No Comments
    That special time of year is fast approaching and here are a few books from the First Edition Online Bookshop especially designed to celebrate Christmas. Let’s Celebrate Christmas! Additive Free. After the success of her first book Let’s Party! Additive free, Melanie Avery has produced another book especially for Christmas...

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  • Carol Preston’s interest in writing historical novels sprang from research into her family’s history. Hoping to find British aristocracy or a famous explorer among her ancestors, she instead found seven generations of ordinary Australians, mostly of British and Irish heritage, many of them convicts, going back to the First Fleet. Once...

    Good Reading Roundup: A History of Extraordinary Women

    Posted on October 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Carol Preston’s interest in writing historical novels sprang from research into her family’s history. Hoping to find British aristocracy or a famous explorer among her ancestors, she instead found seven generations of ordinary Australians, mostly of British and Irish heritage, many of them convicts, going back to the First Fleet. Once...

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  • In our last we looked at memoirs by women. Today we’ll be looking at memoirs by men, a very different kettle of fish. Unlike women, men are not really comfortable with sharing their feelings and faults, and so their memoirs tend to take a different tack, their most profound observances usually well camouflaged...

    Recommended for Book Groups: His Life and Times

    Posted on September 19, 2011 | No Comments
    In our last we looked at memoirs by women. Today we’ll be looking at memoirs by men, a very different kettle of fish. Unlike women, men are not really comfortable with sharing their feelings and faults, and so their memoirs tend to take a different tack, their most profound observances usually well camouflaged...

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Master Classes
  • Getting your first novel published is like your first act of coition. It seems so remote a possibility, at least if you are of my generation, that you say: “The next will be my second. I’ve given up on my first.” But after that, with luck, you’re in like Flynn. Not...

    Getting Published by John Biggs

    Posted on October 18, 2011 | No Comments
    Getting your first novel published is like your first act of coition. It seems so remote a possibility, at least if you are of my generation, that you say: “The next will be my second. I’ve given up on my first.” But after that, with luck, you’re in like Flynn. Not...

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  • ‘So, you want to write your autobiography’ is a progressive and structured course in 8 lessons for beginners and those who have already begun writing.  It will cover: beginning, voice, point of view and tenses, characterisation, working with the senses, symbols and metaphors, dialogue, combining memories, structuring and composition, reviewing, self-editing,...

    So you want to write your autobiography by Eugenia Jenny Williams

    Posted on October 18, 2011 | 1 Comment
    ‘So, you want to write your autobiography’ is a progressive and structured course in 8 lessons for beginners and those who have already begun writing.  It will cover: beginning, voice, point of view and tenses, characterisation, working with the senses, symbols and metaphors, dialogue, combining memories, structuring and composition, reviewing, self-editing,...

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