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Supporting Indie Authors from Draft to Publication

Ashwood Publishing is an independent publisher and author services provider in the Huon Valley in Tasmania. We’re a fee-for-service publisher but not a vanity: we only publish quality books, authors retain all rights to their work, and we charge very reasonable fees.

Ashwood is also the home of Huon Writes, an anthology of writing from the Huon Valley that aims to celebrate and support writing talent in our region by publishing emerging writers alongside well-known names.

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Huon Writes: Ten authors. Ten remarkable voices.

Follow Huon Writes on Facebook and Instagram for writer bios, excerpts and more.

Available at select businesses in the Huon Valley, or order direct from Ashwood.

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BOOK LAUNCH Sunday 16 February at Gleebooks, Glebe, NSW

Great stories from a career in music, great wine and food, great company – join Michael Atherton in conversation with Diana Blom at Gleebooks Glebe, Sunday 16 February, at 3 pm. 
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'Never Miss A Beat' cover. The title is in large block capitals above a headshot of the author, a grey-haired white man looking straight into the camera. He is holding a wooden lyre-shaped musical instrument.

Never Miss A Beat

  • Michael Atherton AM
The Advising Professions by Wanda Buza

The Advising Professions

  • Wanda Buza
Cover of Huon Writes: a delicate pale grey river weed against a dark grey background, with the title, Huon Writes, on bold caps above.

Huon Writes

  • Anthology
Cover of For Love and the Sea by Jutta Townes. A snapshot of the author as a young woman is features on a background of swirling ocean waves, with a map of the world above the title.

For Love and the Sea

  • Jutta Townes
Cover of 'Dance with the Devils'; shows powerlines lit up witb orange light against a dark sky and mountains. A Tasmanian devil snarls in the foreground. There is a tagline, 'Green energy, a dedicated team, and … 'shrooms?', and the title and author are in bold all-cap font.

Dance with the Devils

  • Paul Frisby
Cover of The Peregrinations of Geordie Stubbs, Rogue. The title is in ribbon banners across two antique hemisphere maps. The author's name, John Tully, is on a suitcase in the bottom right corner

The Peregrinations of Geordie Stubbs, Rogue

  • John Tully
Coiver image for The Gentle Care for Broken Things. In the foreground is a broken violin lyin gon gold-coloured linen, and in the background is a faded image of the Tasmanian town of Dover and the moutain Adamson's Peak, in dark ble and teal tones.

The Gentle Care for Broken Things

  • Steven Gadd
Cover image of novel, Francesca Multimortal by V.C. Peisker, shows multiple, progressively fading images of a statue of a woman's face.

Francesca Multimortal

  • V.C. Peisker
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