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Rebekah and I had previously worked with Sorja during out Wild Weeds Press days, producing her debut memoir Tree With No Leaves. 

For Sorja's next book, she wanted a coffee-table style publication that showcased her poetry and paintings created over moments spanning many years. As she says on the backcopy of her book:

"The travails of humankind have never been easy… yet we strive to find love, peace, comfort and joy in moments of our lives.

I am sharing pieces of my mind, heart, and Soul through the physical expression of all that resides in me—in the form of poetry, musings and art."

Sorja suppled her edited poems and artwork, and we put the cover and interior together based on her desired order, layout, and colour schemes. We also helped with marketing and promotions, selling strategies (including Sorja having a table at our annual Festive Book Fair at the KSP Writers' Centre, legal deposit, online distribution and the book launch event.

Sorja was so wonderful to work with, and we are so thankful she trusted us with her beautiful work.

Working with Lara Charles on her memoir Joy, Regardless came about through a skills barter agreement. With Lara's incredible corporate marketing know-how, and our publishing expertise, we were able to not only produce and publish Joy, Regardless but also create a marketing strategy and revamped website for Dragonfly Publishing to focus on what we do best: help authors to publish books that can take flight.

Lara's professionalism and warmth made for a wonderful team collaboration, working well together through all the publishing steps involved.

Lara's gorgeous cover was created by Christa Moffitt of Christabella Designs, and the interior was created by Lisa, our director.

We were so thrilled to be involved with helping such a timely and important book centred around motherhood, cancer, sense of self, and above all else, of being a woman in this day and age. The experiences Lara shares certainly resonated with us.

We first assisted Cobber with publishing the final book in his "bush verse" series, Gallipoli and Other Bush Verse, in January 2022.

He contacted us again in 2024 wanting to put together a very special book - a collection of his favourite bush verses and short stories, and he had a title: No Regrets! His granddaughter had drawn some wonderful scenes from many of his poems to include in the book, and we knew it had to represent all that he was: bush poet, storyteller, family man, wanderer.

Working collaboratively with Cobber, we proofread the poems and stories, put together the interior in the order he wanted and based on ideas he presented us with, came up with a cover concept centred around one of the drawings his granddaughter provided, and organised the launch, sales options, legal deposit, and some marketing.

Cobber was a an absolute joy to work with, and No Regrets: Cobber's Favourite Bush Poems & Yarns was launched into the world on Saturday 7th September 2024 at the State Library of Western Australia by special guest, Bill Gordon, coordinator of Bush Poetry for the Boyup Brook Country Music Club, and president of the WA Bush Poets & Yarnspinners association.

A chance meeting with Jan at another book launch led to a fruitful project for us producing The Museum Cat, a wonderful children's picture book about Boo, the cat who lives at the Cunderdin Museum.

Jan created all the illustrations herself, and we had a fabulous time discussing all-things layout, cover, printing and launching with Jan. The Museum Cat launched at the museum on 12th March 2023 to a packed audience of enthralled adults and children alike. And Boo even graced us with his presence for a short time.

We very much look forward to working with Jan again. 

Violeta's submission was one of the earliest to arrive when we opened our submissions for fully contracted books for the very first time. As soon as we read the sample, we knew this was a very special YA book that offered modern writing, relevance to current issues faced by teenage girls, especially migrant girls in Australia and world-wide, and was so raw and engaging we knew it had a place on Australian bookstore shelves.

As an author, Violeta was incredibly open and easy to work with, dedicated to her craft, and willing to go all-in to make her book successful. We worked closely with Violeta with all editing rounds, coming up with the cover concept and design, the interior set-out, the marketing and media strategy, and promotions.

Andrea Nekić is NOT Fine came into the world in April of 2025, and it has topped three Amazon categories for YA fiction, gone through a second print run for Australian distribution, and continues to perform well. 

We feel so privileged to have walked this path with Violeta, a great example of author-publisher teamwork.

At the launch of another one of our poetry collection books, we had the opportunity to hear Paul perform some of his poems, and we were blown away.

We chatted to Paul during that launch, and he mentioned he had many more poems under his belt, many of them themed around his lived experiences of PTSD, so we asked him to submit some samples to us for consideration.

We loved what he sent, and felt it so relevant and inspiring with regards to the modern day issues faced by many, so offered him a contract.

Paul organised his poems into sections speaking to the various stages of transtioning between breaking, healing, growing and soaring, and with a beautiful cover illustration and thoughtful internal illustrations by Neshka Turner matched to some of the poems, we were able to produce a poetry collection that was poignant, thought-provoking, and representative of Paul's performance style and voice.

Soul Refraction launched online via Zoom on 4th February 2023, with a host of guest performers and to a global audience, a testament to the world-wide name Paul has made for himself.

The stars truly aligned for this one. Fionna was a previous award-winning writer (for several years!) of the KSP Writers' Centre Spooky Stories competition, so we were already familiar with her "spooky" style.

Fionna submitted Sadie and the Secret of the Swamp, a middle-grade "Goosebumps" style fiction novel to us and we loved it! It was funny, scary, full of twists and turns, and with lots of slime involved! Fionna's writing sang on the page, and even as adults, we really enjoyed what happened when main character Sadie is forced to attend a summer "camp" set in a spooky forest (and yes, "Camp Grenada" was on repeat in our heads).

We enlisted the illustration and proofing skills of Zoe Hoffman, who not only created the cover Fionna was wanting, but ensured the edited manuscript was proofed to perfection.

We drew on Fionna's "Twisted Trails" series to come up with the interior design, ensuring that the spook-factor carried throughout the book.

The October 2024 launch was held at the WA State Library alongside Suzanne Ingelbrecht's second book in the "Tumblagooda Trilogy". Emceed by the amazing Ash Harrier, who organised a host of quizzes and games for the kids, and with goody bags for each child attending, the event was filled with laughter, fun, and lots of banter. Fabulous!

Fionna was an absolute dream to publish, and pushed herself as an author to get her name out there and secure events and author talks to firmly establish her readership. As a dab-hand at book cover and interior design herself, along with amazing social media and website skills, it wasn't long before we convinced her to join our publishing team.

We've had the priviledge of publishing two of Barbara's books: The House on Redhill Corner (October 2022) and Diary of Lies (July 2024), going through the full publishing process each, and enjoying every moment!

Both launches were fabulous, and Barb is a dab-hand at backing herself, ensuring her name was well-known, and her books always found their readership.

We've built such a wonderful relationship with Barb that she's asked us to republish her other books under her own imprint "BCG Books", so our journey with her is far from over.

Having previously helped Ann re-publish her children's picture book Astara & Erefrey, Goddesses of the Realm, and the Little Blue Planet after she'd had a below par experience with another publisher, we were delighted to hear she was writing a handbook to accompany her healing practice.

She submitted the manuscript to us in May 2023, and we were blown away by the interplay between her own lived experiences and the modalities of healing she came to know and develop from them. It was a no-brainer for us to publish her book By Divine Instruction: Lessons in Metaphysical Healing - A Guided Handbook.

It was our first foray into self-help books, but what we felt set it apart from the vast array already on the market was that each lesson came about from Ann's lived experiences with ill health, what she discovered actually helped with her healing, and she provided clear instruction and examples for how to do it for yourself.

We worked with editor Michelle Smith to firm up Ann's words, then set to work creating a cover and interior representative of the energy, voice and space Ann wanted to convey. Collaboration all the way, resulting in a popular publication that looks and reads as beautifully as the voice and intentions behind it.