Good On Paper / Andrew Morgan
Winner of the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award
When one-time literary prodigy Josh Henry resurfaces from obscurity, a struggling independent publisher can't believe his luck. Enter freelance editor Nettie Brown with a simple brief: make contact, get the manuscript, deliver the inevitable masterpiece.
But this is no ordinary novel — Nettie is enlisted to help produce a new, improved version of one of the most spectacular failures of the previous decade. Can she negotiate the wounded egos, mangled manuscripts, and missed deadlines before her career succumbs to the final cut?
Part mystery, part satire, Good On Paper casts a cool editorial eye over the making of the books we love.
Winner of the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award
When one-time literary prodigy Josh Henry resurfaces from obscurity, a struggling independent publisher can't believe his luck. Enter freelance editor Nettie Brown with a simple brief: make contact, get the manuscript, deliver the inevitable masterpiece.
But this is no ordinary novel — Nettie is enlisted to help produce a new, improved version of one of the most spectacular failures of the previous decade. Can she negotiate the wounded egos, mangled manuscripts, and missed deadlines before her career succumbs to the final cut?
Part mystery, part satire, Good On Paper casts a cool editorial eye over the making of the books we love.
Winner of the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award
When one-time literary prodigy Josh Henry resurfaces from obscurity, a struggling independent publisher can't believe his luck. Enter freelance editor Nettie Brown with a simple brief: make contact, get the manuscript, deliver the inevitable masterpiece.
But this is no ordinary novel — Nettie is enlisted to help produce a new, improved version of one of the most spectacular failures of the previous decade. Can she negotiate the wounded egos, mangled manuscripts, and missed deadlines before her career succumbs to the final cut?
Part mystery, part satire, Good On Paper casts a cool editorial eye over the making of the books we love.
Andrew Morgan grew up in Newcastle, NSW. His writing has been published in Overland and Going Down Swinging. Andrew received an Australia Council/Varuna Writers’ Centre mentorship and won the Melbourne Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award, for Good on Paper. He lives in Melbourne.
“A flawless evocation of the literature machine, a witty remodelling of a crime caper, a perfectly formed entertainment.”
“This is a book filled with biting wit, priceless metaphor and perfectly-drawn characters. The first half in particular is a master-class in the economy of words.”
