Blaise Van HeckeBlaise van Hecke is co-owner and Publisher at Busybird Publishing. She is also a writer, photographer and walker. Her latest walk was on the Camino de Santiago, which is an 800 kilometre pilgrim walk across the north of Spain. She is the author of Th Road to Tralfamadore is Bathed in River Water, a memoir about growing up on a commune in the 1970s. She has also has been published in the short story anthology, Mud Puddles (May 08), Blue Crow Magazine, [untitled] issue two, came second in the bi-annual short story competition with the Society of Women Writers of Victoria 2007, for her story 'The Eleventh Summer'; and is the author of The Book Book: 12 steps to successful publishing, as well as Who is a Cheeky Monkey? Blaise runs various workshops for Busybird about writing, editing, and publishing, and is popularly in demand for talks about publishing in general. What Blaise loves most is nurturing an author through the writing and self-publishing process, and the look on their face when they finally have their book in their hands. Read More Read Less