The trailer for the new and amazing Young and Emerging Publishers podcast. We will interview experts from the Australian publishing industry, up and coming talent, and students just starting out.
We're here to bring you knowledge about the industry to start you on your journey to publishing stardom.
I sit down with Meg Vann: author, publisher, and academic, to discuss the publishing industry as it exists in Australia.
We discuss YEP, what it can offer and what we hope to achieve with it. YEP is a brand new project to help network young and emerging publishers throughout Australia. We discuss the difficulties that stand in the way of people just starting out and some details about the industry itself.
We get real and we have some fun too. A little bit of everything.
Episode 2 - Coming Soon
The amazing and talented Alex Adsett, literary agent and publishing consultant, agrees to chat with me about her various loves, including but not limited to, the passion of the people in the publishing industry, her corgi dog and siamese cat, and stalking people into being friends with her.
We talk about her experiences in the industry and she shares some fun and handy information.
Kim Wilkins, author, academic, and publishing expert, comes into the studio to teach us a thing or two. She shares details about her twenty years as a regularly published author, describes the digital shifts that have taken place in the industry over that period, and shares her opinion that it's not really possible to predict where the industry will go from here, only to actively shape it.
So you should absolutely dive right into the job market. Fake it 'til you make it. What are you waiting for?
It's a nice, calm chat where I completely get away with repeatedly saying she looks evil.
Two of the other student partners, Cherie Cheah and Bailie Reichardt, let me ask them questions about their interests and knowledge of the publishing industry.
We go off on quite a few tangents but do discuss some relevant things. Cherie shares what she has learned recently about literary magazines and Bailie has opinions about what the future is for books as physical artifacts.
Click to find out the opinions of three students who only sort of know what they're talking about.
The second round of student partners, Fletcher Quilty and Wolfram Keesing, join us for more discussion of the industry. We have lots of fun, make a little bit of innuendo, and talk about zines. Like a lot. For most of the episode, really.
Fletcher shares his opinions of how relationship building is integral to making it in this industry and Wolfram shares how to build skills and experience in publishing through self-publishing small works that don't have to be perfect.
It seems that zines are the perfect way to develop all the skills you'll need in the publishing industry proper. So zine it up, zinesters!