Sophie Masson
Sophie Masson is the award-winning author of more than 60 books, for children, young adults and children. Her latest books are the YA novel Hunter’s Moon (Random House Australia 2015) and Trinity: The False Prince (Momentum, 2015). She is at present working on a PhD in Creative Practice at the University of New England. Sophie serves on the Board of the Australian Society of Authors and the New England Writers’ Centre, and has served on the Book Industry Collaborative Council and the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
All essays by Sophie Masson
Authors in a changing world
‘Any author who’s been in the business longer than five years can tell you that we’ve had to change our professional practices in response to the transformed circumstances in the industry.’ This week the results of an extensive survey of over 1000 Australian authors assessing the impact on authorship of changing circumstances in the book industry were published by Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics. Sophie Masson considers the findings.