While there are many books available about how to write, few focus on the profession of being an author. How to find a publisher? How to prepare a manuscript for submission, contracts, editing, promotion, working with booksellers, and more. Deborah Hunn is a lecturer in creative writing at Curtin University in Western Australia and Georgia Richter has taught creative writing, professional writing and editing at universities in Melbourne and Western Australia, and is now the fiction, narrative non-fiction and poetry publisher at Freemantle Press. Their book is called How To Be An Author: The Business of Being A Writer in Australia.