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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thanks Sam. It's made me think too about other ways we authors can help different ages and groups in a community setting or who are in need...from just sitting and reading to letting people know their stories matter.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sydney-based authors and illustrators - Sydney Children's Hospital School is looking for someone to visit their K–12 students around Book Week and beyond. Small groups K-6 and 7-12, flexible dates, volunteer role. Details 👇

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

'If you were guaranteed your next book would be published…would you produce the same book or would it be different?' (Richard Yaxley at GenreCon) When you go to a writing conference and there's way too many great takeaways so you pop it all into a blog to share with other authors.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

For readers, librarians, festival programmers and reviewers, it’s now much easier to browse indie books in one place. And for ALLi members, it's a free service.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

As ALLi’s non-fiction advisor, I’ve watched this move from idea to reality, and what I like most is its simplicity. Authors choose their own buy links (retail or direct). It doesn’t replace platforms or stores. It adds visibility.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Alliance of Independent Authors has launched the Indie Author Bookstore — a global discovery hub for independently published books across all genres. 📚

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

For some reason Test match cricket on in the background makes book editing soooo much easier.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This is a great list for authors as many festivals also offer satellite workshops and are a great way to spend time with your people AND improve your craft.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The 2026 list of Australian Writers Festivals is here! All the latest dates, new festivals and your old favourites! Famous, debut and local authors to discover In glorious locations near and far. Which are your faves? annafeatherstone.com/writing-reso...

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List of Australian Writers Festivals and Writers Conferences updated for 2026

If you’re a writer or reader planning a holiday, make it one for your creative spirit by planning it around a writers festival or writers conference! Australia has so many wonderful writers festivals,...

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So great to see! A win for writers and the community at large.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/07/2025

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

What nonfiction trend excites (or worries) you most right now?

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Non-fiction authors: between AI, short reads and global opportunities there's plenty on the horizon. I had a great convo with Matty Dalrymple from ALLi about non-fiction trends and an indie author approach. 👉 annafeatherstone.com/the-future-f...

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The Future for Non-Fiction: Trends, Tidbits & Tactics for Indie Authors

As the Alliance of Independent Authors’ Non-Fiction Advisor, I recently sat down (across the world via Zoom) for one of my regular catch up sessions with ALLi Campaigns Manager Matty Dalrymple. We wer...

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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Got plans today at lunchtime? Join me today at 1pm AEST to learn what works for me and how to maximise your presence on this platform. FRIDAY 13 June, 1PM AEST – “Exploring Bluesky” Facebook link is here: lnkd.in/gX46ETtU On Zoom: Meeting ID 893 7026 9599 Invite Link lnkd.in/gmUteBgS 🧵 1/3

a green, black and white graphic poster inviting people to an online event for Exploring Bluesky with Dr Annetta Mallon. There is an inset picture of a smiling woman with white curly hair, a big smaile and a denim jacket to the lower left.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

As @adambecker.bsky.social makes clear in his new book, More Everything Forever, we’re not going to colonize Mars. What’s underneath the desire of tech oligarchs to take us there is deeply disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

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We're Not Going to Colonize Mars

On Adam Becker's new book and the people who are going to destroy the universe in the name of saving "humanity."

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"Authors shouldn’t have to always be so suspicious of unexpected outreach...That gushing out-of-the-blue review or fan letter may be exactly the day-brightening surprise it appears to be…but there’s also a non-zero possibility that it’s a prelude to a scam." writerbeware.blog/2025/05/09/t...

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Two to Avoid: Book Order Scams and Fake Reviews - Writer Beware

Scammers are nothing if not inventive. As writers become wise to their techniques, they invent new ones. Here are two newish frauds that appear to be on the rise. As with most writing scams these days...

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Writers - there are some incredible pitching sessions, literary agent one-on-ones, signed books, manuscript appraisals & more up for auction today from the auslit and kidlit community…even a crocheted reading blanket by Hannah Kent airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...

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Crochet reading blanket, handmade by Hannah Kent, PLUS signed copy of any of her published books

Award-winning, best-selling author Hannah Kent will make you a crochet reading blanket in your colour preference PLUS send a personalised, signed copy of one of her books: Burial Rites, The Good Peopl...

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Sustainability doesn't necessarily need to be the plot in our books-it can live in the margins, and still make a difference.

In a park-like setting with lots of trees, a writer in yellow lies on a picnic blanket and taps away on a computer

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We can help the future through how we write our characters, settings and plot lines – and even by choosing what genre to write in.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Tessa de Josselin who led the workshop quoted: "the future isn't this distant place; it's a verb." i.e. the future doesn’t exist yet, the future is what WE create. She urged us to portray sustainability not as a far-off goal but as an active, present-day endeavour.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Setting: we can weave sustainability principles into the setting without directly addressing climate by including descriptive elements such as solar panels, community gardens, bike paths or electric vehicles to normalise sustainable living.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Does one of your characters shop at op shops, mend things, use public transport, have a herb pot on the balcony, volunteer, wear grandma's old jumpers, guerrilla garden etc

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Narrative: screenwriters may use a climate related theme as the basis of their production, or just to drive a story arc or a particular episode. Likewise, we can do this with our books too, so that a scene, character arc or a chapter may be driven by a climate related theme–or the entire book.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Is there a way in your writing you can show the benefits of sustainable living and make it aspirational?

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Replacement: Swap out environmentally harmful activities with sustainable alternatives.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Discussion between characters: Create dialogues that address unsustainable behaviours.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Omission: If certain unsustainable actions aren't crucial to the plot, consider removing them. E.g. does the character need to drive 1km down the road to get a coffee…or could they walk and take a Keep Cup with them?

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Any authors out there doing a 'climate edit', 'climate read' or 'climate pass' on their manuscripts? Loving this concept from albert and Sustainable Screens Australia - there's so much we writers can be doing to create a better world. Some info from the workshop...

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Who/what/how/when…tell me the creation story of #posterpit please. So fun to see all these books and manuscripts getting the movie poster treatment.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A human chain of books! Town of Tuplin wins the book lover award today, forming a 300m human chain to help a bookstore move 9,100 books, one-by-one, to a new shop location. Alphabetised too! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront

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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ahead of the federal election, the ASA is joining publishers, librarians, and booksellers in a shared election platform for the book industry. bookscreate.com.au

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Election platform for books and reading • Books Create Australia

Australia’s authors, publishers, booksellers and librarians urge candidates to back books and reading during this Federal Election.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Cannot work out if this is real, or if a disgruntled bar employee was having a joke (and printed and laminated multiple copies of said joke). Tasting notes of 'sea brine, brioche & mushroom'??? Is that a thing for a sparkling wine? Does that sound like something you'd actually want to drink?

A drink menu from a bar describes a sparkling wine as having hints of 'sea brine, brioche and mushroom'.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A lot of authors much more worse off than me - dozens of books and translations. Wild!

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Not all my books are in the database, so it didn't necessarily scoop up every work, just the one that had been pirated. Likely higher profile authors had more of their books pirated.

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Anna Featherstone @annafeatherstone.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just found out meta stole my memoir about organic farming/native bees via a pirate site to train its AI... a huge number of Australian authors are just discovering massive, unauthorised theft of their books. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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