Wakefield Press

... uh, The Persistence of Vision is the name of your book, Shine: Persistence of Vision, which is at The Mercury, mercury.org.au.

This is the great Wakefield Press just there at Mile End.

So this is a 10-year journey of the film-

Yes

The Mercury Cinema.

Register for free, but you gotta go to themercury.org.au if you want a seat.

Presented by Wakefield Press, Flinders University, and SA Style, and that will be a great celebration there too.

Deb's doing the Q&A, Deb Tribe, along with your good self, the book launch on Wednesday the 21st of October.

Well, yeah, my agent doesn't necessarily give detailed editorial advice, but I understand that some do.

So most of the... detailed changes are coming from um wakefield press so from my editor um but my agents in sydney and my editors in south australia so no one's taking me for a beer

that's

really that's

yeah i need to look into that better so but yeah so really a lot of my

day-to-day is um

Yeah, is with Maddy at Wakefield Press.

And so that's where the story really gets shaped.

decade.

Yeah, and so eventually through Jane it was picked up by Wakefield Press.

So

that's

Like it's, yeah, it's very sort of, yeah, gentle and considerate and certainly...

Don't forget, I had an editor, so this lovely editor...

maddie sexton at wakefield press and so if if something's gentle and subtle it's probably because it's probably her more than me

well it's funny i've it's funny you ask that we say that because i've got in the habit lately of asking this question and it's tricky to always put a percentage on but i'm always curious about what kind of percentage value you think an editor and that whole process adds to the quality of your book from you know draft one to the publisher to release book on the shelf it's um yeah i'm always curious about that one as well