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How I built Maternal Instinct’s fictional world – world building in fiction

September 5, 2017 by Rebecca Bowyer 11 Comments

This is a post about the making of Maternal Instinct, a dystopian novel published on 7 October 2019. Find out more about Maternal Instinct: A Novel here. I write speculative fiction, which means I build fictional worlds that aren’t quite like the world we live in. Spec fic worlds can be completely different – dragons […]

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My manuscript is going to the London Book Fair! – #LBF17

March 14, 2017 by Rebecca Bowyer 35 Comments

The 46th London Book Fair starts today. 25,000 publishing professionals from 124 countries are meeting in London to talk about books and my manuscript is going to be there. Publishers from dozens of countries (okay, so maybe not all 124 of them) are going to be talking about my novel, Maternal Instinct. I may be just a tiny bit excited. […]

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7 things I’ve learned about signing with a literary agent

January 31, 2017 by Rebecca Bowyer 37 Comments

Two months ago I finished re-drafting Maternal Instinct – the working title of my first novel – and started to research publishers and agents in Australia. Last week I signed an agreement with FinePrint Literary Management – a literary agent in New York – to represent my novel to publishers worldwide. It’s not been a particularly conventional journey. Here’s how […]

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Interview with Susan McCreery, author of Loopholes

November 24, 2016 by Rebecca Bowyer 5 Comments

Susan McCreery is a poet and writer of micro fiction from Thirroul, NSW. Her new book, Loopholes, is like a wonderful degustation menu of fiction. Each snippet only takes a minute to read but leaves you hungry for the next course. I’m thrilled to welcome Susan to the blog today, in conversation with Nicole Schalchlin. Make sure you to […]

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Interview with Virginia Franken, author of Life After Coffee

October 11, 2016 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

I’m thrilled to have Virginia Franken with me today to answer a few of my burning questions about her hilarious debut novel, Life After Coffee. Life After Coffee follows the parenting fails of Amy O’Hara who has been thrown in the deep end of parenting after she loses her high-powered coffee-buying job. When Amy’s husband (until […]

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9 Reasons Why Attending a Conference is Exactly Like Reliving Your Childhood

September 13, 2016 by Rebecca Bowyer 34 Comments

The great thing about hundreds of bloggers getting together for a conference is they all write about it afterwards. On the internet. So after you’ve read this post, scroll down and click through to read other posts about Problogger 2016. Did you go to Problogger? Link up your post below! I look forward to reading […]

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