Philippa (Pippa) Carron, PhD, is a freelance writer, editor, trainer, workshop facilitator and personal writing coach. She works for a range of private sector and government clients, delivering writing courses and providing high-level writing, editing and coaching services through her company Yelsel International Pty Ltd, under the business name Writing in the Gap (www.writinginthegap.com). More recently, she has been working with fiction writing, editing and manuscript appraisal. She is a qualified creativity coach, specialising in overcoming writers block. Pippa also specialises in helping people self-publish their books through her mentoring website www.myselfpublishingsecrets.com. She is a member of the Australian Society of Authors, the Canberra Society of Editors, the ACT Writers Centre, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.