Steven Herrick on Being a HYBRID Author of Cycling Travel Books for Adults and Children’s and Young Adult Fiction

Steven Herrick is the author of twenty-six books for children and young adults and ten cycling travel ebooks. His books have won the WA Premier’s Literary Awards, twice won the NSW Premier’s Literary awards; and been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award on ten occasions. He’s also won the prestigious German […]
An Almost Merry Christmas Mash Up of 2022 Guests From July

Snippets from 2022 past guests who have appeared on the podcast since July: Episode 31 Children’s Author Sian Turner on Juggling Writing and Kids Episode 32 The Scriptpreneur Tammy Gross on Converting an Award Winning Screenplay into a Best Selling Novel Episode 33 Sci fi and Fantasy Fiction Author Phil Asmundson on ‘Writing Character Perspective’ […]
Peter Quarry on ‘Making Peace With the Past and Re-energising for the Future’

Peter Quarry is a multi-award-winning psychologist, whose 1000+ video-based training programs are used by companies, universities and organisations in over 20 countries. He was ‘Resident Psychologist’ on ‘Good Morning’ Australia for seven years and is a sought-after public speaker. To date, Peter’s putting himself on the couch and talking about his debut release: If I Were […]
Pauline Yates on ‘Writing Horror’

Pauline Yates is an Australian author of horror and dark speculative fiction. She’s an Australian Shadows Awards Short Fiction Finalist, Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) Short Story Winner, and is translated with Riflessi di Luce Lunare (RiLL), in Italy. In the 46th episode of the HYBRID Author podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of children’s and […]
Valerie Khoo on Building The Creative Business of Your Dreams

Valerie Khoo is a writer, artist and CEO of the Australian Writers Centre and host of The So You Want to be a Writer Podcast. In episode 45 of The HYBRID Author Podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of children’s and young adult fiction and short non fiction for authors, chats to Valerie about her lessons […]
Digital Lending Rights (DLR) Payments for Authors with Joanne Morrell

Do you have audio and eBook formats of your work? Are these digital files available for loan in public lending libraries? Do you currently receive any compensation on library users borrowing the digital copies of your books? Get the downlow on Digital Lending Rights (DLR) with The HYBRID Author podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of […]
The Reluctant Book Marketer Jody J Sperling

From higher education, decades in marketing and sales, and years of embarrassing failure, Jody J Sperling turned obscurity into a seven-figure success story. He’s an emerging author and the host and creator of The Reluctant Book Marketer podcast, teaching writers how they can go from scraping by as a bottom-feeding author to a bestseller. In […]
Helen Scheuerer on How to Write a Successful Series

Helen Scheuerer is the fantasy author of the bestselling trilogies, The Orameer Chronicles and the Curse of the Cyren Queen quartet. In the 42nd episode of the HYBRID Author podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of children’s and young adult fiction and short non fiction for authors chats to Helen about her new debut nonfiction book, How To Write A Successful Series. Listen […]
Amy Calautti on How to Hire an Illustrator

How do I go about hiring an illustrator for my children’s book? Amy Calautti is an in-demand children’s picture book illustrator, completing 14 picture books (and counting) since taking on her first contract in 2019. In the 41st episode of the HYBRID Author podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of short non fiction for authors and children’s and […]
So You Want be a Writer: How to Get Started While you Still Have a Day Job with Allison Tait

Allison Tait (A.L. Tait) is an internationally published bestselling author, multi-genre writer, teacher, speaker and podcaster. Former co-host of The Australian Writer’s Centre (AWC) podcast ‘So You Want to be a Writer’ with Valerie Khoo, Allison and Valerie collated the thoughts and tips of past guests of the podcast (as well as their own experiences) […]
