Friday Brown spreads her wings…

To those readers who’ve enquired about Friday Brown’s availability overseas—Simon & Schuster will be publishing Friday Brown in the US and Canada, and Hot Key Books will publish in the UK, both in 2013. Woo! Hardcover! It took a lot of people to make this happen. To everyone who has championed Friday Brown here in […]

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Next week in Melbourne…

Aside from my Melbourne Writers’ Festival sessions, there’s a special event being held at the State Library next Tuesday evening. I’ll be in-conversation with Fiona Wood, author of the wonderful Six Impossible Things, talking about Friday Brown (which is released tomorrow), my inspiration, ideas and how to disembark a tree (that’s how to get down from […]

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A sighting in the wild…

Friday Brown is almost ready to fly. It’s like seeing my youngest off to school. The house is too quiet. I don’t quite know what to do with my freedom. I’ve had this baby swaddled like a papoose for so long and now it’s out there. Think Mork (Robin Williams before he got craggy) launching […]

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