Advice for writers.
Okay, so this goes out to everyone – readers, writers, non-readers, non-writers, everyone (including myself)… read things aloud! After my appearance on the radio the other day, my two children (who have also just won writing awards!) were thrilled to be asked to read their most recent stories aloud for…
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…
Today I’m over on Felicity Pulman’s blog talking about writing, books and self-promotion. Felicity Pulman is the author of 14 books for adults and children, including A Ring Through Time, The Shalott Trilogy, and the medieval crime YA series The Janna Mysteries. Her novel Lilies for Love won the Society of…
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.…
From time to time, we all dream about time travel – whether it’s wanting to take back something you said, remembering a happy memory and wanting those feelings again, or actually wanting to go back or forward in time. As you may know, I recently visited the UK and was…
When I was a lawyer (in a past life, see here), I wanted to be a judge. I have a strong sense of fairness and enjoy listening to others. I have also always loved stories and for me a big part of being a lawyer was understanding and then communicating…
