Anna Featherstone

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✍️ 🐝 🌱 ❤️ 📚 I help authors write, publish & market books | Publishing consultant Australian Society of Authors (ASA) | Non-fiction advisor & podcast host Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) | judge Australian Business Book Awards | Bold Authors

In a park-like setting with lots of trees, a writer in yellow lies on a picnic blanket and taps away on a computer
A drink menu from a bar describes a sparkling wine as having hints of 'sea brine, brioche and mushroom'.
A screenshot from The Atlantic and the search of the LibGen site showing Honey Farm Dreaming: a member about sustainability, small farming and the not-so-simple life
A creamy paper ripped exposing a lush purple pattern with the quote from author Steff Green: 'There's a balance between the absolute best product you can put out...and actually putting out books.'
A velvety purple background with a quote from author Steff Green aka Steffanie Holmes and the text: '10 years ago indie authors would not have had a chance with trad publishers, that has shifted because publishers know indie authors know their audience.'
A background comprising a creamy white paper ripped exposing a velvety purple background with a quote from author Steff Green aka Steffanie Holmes and the text: 'You want to enjoy what you're actually writing or otherwise you might as well be an investment banker'.
A velvety purple background with a quote from author Steff Green aka Steffanie Holmes and the text: You can't build a backlist out of books you haven't published'.
At the AusOpen tennis former world #1 junior Todd Ley (bearded, dark hair, sunglasses, white patterned shirt) holds his book SMASHED (the cover depicts an illustration of a tennis player trapped in/trying to escape the strings of a racket) in a crowded tennis stadium. Blue skies and shade cloth above.
The covers of 8 tennis memoirs and autobiographies featuring the faces of Jelena Jokic, Andre Agassi, Maria Sharapova, Ash Barty, RAFA, Naomi Osaka, Arthur Ashe and also Conor Niland's book which features a broken racket and Todd Ley's book which is an illustation of a player trying to break free of and through the broken strings of a tennis racket.
A dark-bearded man stares directly at the camera. Below is a book cover with an illustrated male tennis player trying to break through/out of the strings of a tennis racket. The text is: Author talk - Todd Ley - Richmond Library.
A cracked, red clay court background and the words: THE POWER OF MEMOIR Sometime's it's not just what the memoirist says - or how they say it - it's the fact that sometimes they've survived to say it at all.