Woo hoo! Today my talented Northern Beaches Writers’ Group and I were awarded ‘Best Book’ in the 2015 Write-a-Book-in-a-Day competition’s open category. What a thrill! Doubly so because this is the third year in a row we’ve been awarded ‘Best Book’. Hat trick! Every year for the past three years,…
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.…
Yesterday, my wonderful Northern Beaches Writers’ Group and I wrote a book in a day to raise money for The Kids Cancer Project. It’s something we’ve done for the last few years to support research in curing childhood cancer, and to give the children at Westmead Children’s Hospital a page-turning…
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…
Last weekend, it was my birthday. It was a special birthday too, and I was so very lucky that my entire day was… perfect! Not only did family and friends join in to celebrate my special day, but I got to spend hours with bookish people whom I treasure. And…
Last week was National Youth Week, the largest celebration of young people in Australia. Thousands of young people aged 12-25 got involved in events across Australia, and one of those events was a free writing workshop I organised for young writers at Manly Library. The NYW’s tagline never felt more…
