Critical examination of bookish events, news and debate.
What a busy but fulfilling month! I’ve judged three short story competitions, attended one festival, two presentation ceremonies, featured in one local newspaper and one local magazine, agreed to one free writing workshop for kids, and have signed a book deal! Wow! Wanna see some photos? Last Wednesday I presented…
A lot of writers struggle to find the time to actually write. Among other things, we have family commitments, paid work, sleep and shiny things on the internet to juggle before any writing gets done. So I couldn’t wait for this weekend – an entire weekend of writing on a…
On Saturday afternoon a bunch of lovely young readers, friends, family and writers, including the bestselling children’s author Belinda Murrell, came to Manly Library to support my continued fundraising for The Kids’ Cancer Project, this time through the launch of my co-authored children’s book Rider & the Hummingbird. Rider &…
This year, I was delighted to be asked to teach ‘The Year Your Book Gets Written’ at the awesome Mosman College. It’s a great course for anyone who wants to write a book, and would love workshop skills training, set deadlines to write to and a mentor to guide them.…
Last year I was a judge for the Australian Horror Writers’ Association’s short story competition, and I wrote about that experience here, setting out how I’d gone about marking the stories. This year I was asked to judge another competition, this time the Ghostly Stringybark short story competition. It was…
Words in Print First up, find me on p13 of The Manly Daily today! Or in the image below, he he… Woo hoo – I love being in print! This article is all about the teen fiction books I write collaboratively with a bunch of awesome authors to raise money…
This weekend was a bookish one for me… On Saturday I taught creative writing at the Mosman College. Then on Sunday I attended Book Expo Australia, where my Northern Beaches Writers’ Group and I had a stall to sell our books… I was also ‘booked’ (he he!) in to talk…
