I believe that happiness is about creating the life that you love. There will be ups and downs along the way, but having a life and career with flow and flexibility makes me happy. When you love what you do, it is never work – it is just work life flow.

Building a productive writing routine is essential to achieving your writing goals, whether they involve completing an entire book, writing regular blog posts, or something else entirely. Perhaps you just want to write for fun, which we totally understand.

We’ve compiled a list of authors – new and old – to watch in 2023 to keep everyone in the loop and highlight the excitement that’s coming our way in the new year.

I am not sure about you, but I’m utterly exhausted… and you may be feeling this way too. This is happening for so many of us right now, and it’s important that we give ourselves the time and space to recover and work through it.  

Beauty can come from all different angles. Beauty isn’t just about looking good, with your hair and makeup done. Beauty can be about how you feel about yourself, but it is also so much deeper than external looks.

If you are a first-time author who doesn’t know where to start, then this article is for you! Here you’ll find everything you need to know about how to do research for your coming book.

In the Sparkle Kids’ first adventure, Summer becomes trapped by the Old Sugar Troll. She needs Sonny’s help to rescue her from the troll’s sugar-filled cave. Together, Summer and Sonny must fight the Sugar Troll to save thousands of other children who have been trapped by his treats.

What is your book called and what is it about? My book is called Living From the Inside Out: How to Become a Modern-day Wonder Woman. Most of us know…

With a strained healthcare system, worker burnout, emergency overload and winter sickness, it seems that there’s little choice than to become more active in maintaining and optimising one’s own health.…

Australia has some of the strictest defamation laws in the world – it is often called the ‘defamation capital of the world’. As a publishing house, we have a responsibility…

By Susan Dean As an Australian-based business owner and book publisher, I am going to let you in on a little trade secret that many publishers don’t talk about. That…

Books That Teach Us How to Write and Unleash Our Creativity Izzy Smith Not all Dean Publishing authors want to be writers; some value the help of professional writers to…

In honour of Autism Awareness Day, we’d like to introduce you to upcoming Dean Publishing author Orion Kelly, also known as ‘That Autistic Guy’. Orion is changing the way people…

Hey, all you inspiring poets out there! Today is World Poetry Day, and at Dean Publishing we are celebrating the prose masters and stanza maestros who have given language its…

Looking for the best writing apps to help you with your next book? Take a look at some handy tools recommended by the experts at Dean Publishing. We all write…

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’d love to spotlight some of our incredible female authors for 2022. At Dean Publishing, we’re passionate about sharing the voices and teachings of…

We often get asked the question “What’s the difference between Traditional Publishing, Self Publishing and Dean Publishing?” So I thought I would take a second to outline the differences in…

Did you realise 1 in 2 women aged over 50 is impacted with low bone quality or quantity leading to bone fracture? Let’s first look at why this happens. In…

Macedon Ranges’ very own multi-talented mum Susan Dean has been named as a finalist for the AusMumpreneur Awards. These awards celebrate women across the country that juggle the responsibilities of…

Written by Ashleigh Meikle We’re All in This Together was written and published at the height of the Victorian lockdown. Six school friends – Kiana, Amin, Roshan, Casey, Ming, and…

Why is it here? Where did it come from? Did someone actually eat a bat? Can I still share my friends’ toys? If I cough, does that mean I have…

This week marks World Suicide Prevention Day and R U OK Day. The theme of World Suicide Prevention Day is ‘Take a minute, change a life’. It highlights the importance of speaking…

This week’s newsletter column is written by Jess Van Zeil (@jessvanzeil) Jess is a resilience coach, writer and speaker who survived stage four ocular melanoma. She is also the author of Eye…

We all have bad days. You know those days when nothing seems to go your way. It may begin that you burn the toast, get stuck in traffic and run…

I must confess — often my best ideas strike in the shower. I don’t know whether it’s the warm water or the fact that I have “switched-off” that induces these…

I’ve spent countless years neck-deep in the area of coaching training and self- development. I’ve been trained by some of the best coaches in the world— John Gray, Taki Moore,…

YSHIFT - Your Share It Forward Teachings Recent research has now proven what we suspect to be true – the constant barrage of negative news and violent media does impact our mental…

In the early morning hours of August 2, 1990 Iraqi army tanks and helicopters crossed their southern border into Kuwait, beginning what would turn out to be a seven-month occupation…

Susan Dean I’m not going to use the ‘c’ word in this blog. After all, you’ve probably heard the word thousands of times this week. You know the word —…

If you’ve ever felt that there is a book inside of you and you haven’t yet written one, this might be an interesting way to get that book ‘out’ from…

It was a serendipitous meeting in all respects. At a business conference in Sydney in 2017, Australian dentist Catherine Yang was about to leave early when a friend convinced her…

Dr. Andrew Bachour had a headache… not your garden variety headache, but one of those persistent, splitting, throbbers that can make you hate life. Unfortunately, those headaches had become a…

Jennifer Harrington has written what I consider to be the MOST helpful, needed resource for perimenopausal and menopausal women. The title says it all: From Invisible to Invincible. The subtitle is accurate: The…

Answering the questions that Google gets asked One of the beautiful things about Google is that, through its predictions feature, it will show you what some of the most popular…