The HYBRID Author

Apr 10 2025 162 ep. 37 mins 13

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What is a HYBRID Author you ask. It's not conforming to uniform in your writing and publishing endeavours. It's writing across genres, mixing writing styles, publishing all ways and getting comfortable pushing boundaries promoting you and your books. Join host Joanne Zara Ellen Morrell, author of young adult fiction, women's fiction and short non-fiction for authors for weekly episodes campaigning to encourage authors to have a hybrid author career — because life truly is too short to wait.

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Deborah Pike on ‘What to do after your first novel is published’

Apr 10 2025 30 mins

Deborah Pike is a writer and academic based in Sydney. She grew up in Northam and Perth, Western Australia. She has an Honours degree in English from the University of Western Australia, and a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is an associate professor of English Literature at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, and is a winner of an Australian Government Award for Universit

Stephen Whiteside on Writing Narrative Non-fiction Australian History ‘Snow, Fire and Gold’

Apr 08 2025 55 mins

Stephen Whiteside has been walking and skiing through the Australian mountains for most of his life. He has also been writing for many years - mostly rhyming verse, but also short stories, and articles about Australia's history and natural environment. Many of his poems have been published in magazines or anthologies, both in Australia and overseas, or won awards. In 2014, Walker B

How Poetry Serves as a Form of Healing and Self-discovery with Jessie Vong

Apr 01 2025 27 mins

Jessie Vong is an emerging artist and poet, currently pursuing Art Therapy studies at the College of Complementary Medicine in NSW, Australia, a journey she began in October 2024. With a passion for creativity and mental health advocacy, Jessie's work bridges the worlds of art and healing, inspired by her deep belief that art is 'food for the soul'. Her poetry journey began when a

Shane Simonsen on Self-Publishing Books vs. Blogging on Substack

Mar 25 2025 47 mins

Shane is a biochemist turned teacher turned experimental farmer who decided to add author to the list. He writes weekly non-fiction essays about his passion for transformative agriculture on Substack (at Zero Input Agriculture) and released a short non-fiction book, “Taming the Apocalypse” on the enormous potential for novel domestications. Under the pen-name Haldane B. Doyle h

Uncovering Truths in Young Adult Fiction: Karen Cunningham on Writing and Self-Publishing 'Missing Sarah Harris'

Mar 18 2025 35 mins

Karen Cunningham is a graphic designer by day, and a closet writer at all other times. An overthinker from way back, she always has a story in her head and is known to become quite panicky when she doesn’t have at least a small stack of books waiting to be read. Karen is the author and illustrator of Jenny Spaghetti (writing as KarenMargaret), a 2001 independently-published pict

Suzi Samuel Revising a Bestseller and 'The Dark at the Threshold'

Mar 13 2025 36 mins

Suzi Samuel is the author of The Unintentional Medium and the soon to be published An Unintentional Journey. The Dark at The Threshold is her first foray into fiction and draws largely on her knowledge of France and her own personal experience of the spirit world. Born in England, Suzi spent a large part of her life in Wimbledon where she worked as a French tutor and translator. Af

A.M Jaxon on Balancing Romance and Suspense and The Love Connection Series: Saoirse's Story

Mar 10 2025 23 mins

A.M. Jaxon is a romantic suspense writer who grew from tropical Queensland small town wild child to become a pharmacist in Brisbane before attaining a PhD in Business from the University of Western Australia. Her passion for women’s hockey led her to coaching internationally in Barcelona, Rotterdam and the UK, and also on Australia’s Gold Coast and Perth. In 2014, Allison dec

Living with Split: Maggie Walters on the Journey of Multiple Personality Disorder and the Power of Storytelling

Mar 05 2025 35 mins

Maggie Walters lives in the Northern Rivers of NSW, where she spends her days developing her writing skills and raising three teenagers. After meeting her husband, she immigrated to Australia from the US, and spent the bulk of her career in various marketing roles before returning to her long-held love of the written word. Expression through words has become a driving passion in M

Dana Da Silva on Writing Erotica

Mar 03 2025 33 mins

Dana Da Silva is a single mum of two based in Sydney, Australia. Having completed her journalism degree in 2011, she’s spent the past decade working in PR across both the public and private sectors. These days, Dana’s a part-time media adviser, and, on her days off from the corporate world, an aspiring indie author with big dreams. Creative writing, including poetry, is her eli

Relentless Pursuit: Junior Bernard on Overcoming Adversity and Turning Survival into Inspiration

Feb 15 2025 27 mins

Junior was born and raised in Haiti and moved to the United States in 2010 following the devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of over 100,000 people. He earned his degree from Alvernia University in December 2014 on a full scholarship.His commitment to making a difference has earned him the prestigious Alvernia University’s Four Under Forty Achievement Award, a testament