Critical examination of bookish events, news and debate.
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…
It’s the school holidays here in Sydney and, as a work-from-home mum, that means limited opportunities for me to seek out the quiet pockets of writing time I usually live to find. Luckily there have been plenty of other writing joys to inspire me between keeping kids and clients happy.…
This fantastic library meme is going around at the moment, reminding everyone about the valuable role libraries still play in our lives: I agree! Not only do I love libraries, their studious calm and mind-expending resources, but they’ve provided a safe haven for me many times over the years –…
Stories have immense power. They can change the way you think about life, let you escape from the world for a while, keep you up late at night… I love books! So do children. Stories are magical. Stories can inspire and excite. Stories can help children make sense of the…
