Don’t give in to moral panic, fellas! Here are some tips from my own bumpy literary journey

If you really want to make a name for yourself, publish comment insisting you’ve been silenced.

It happened again last week in a nationwide publication. Under a byline, accompanied by a headshot and the covers of two of his books, an Australian author counted himself among those writers deemed “pale, stale and male” by the publishing industry, who “seem to have become cancelled because of our age”.