On book angels…

A couple of days ago I posted a vague tweet about ‘book angels’ and promised to follow up. I’m always interested in the stories behind stories, so here’s some insight into mine. I’ve been lucky with the people I’ve met on my writing journey—either that, or the YA/children’s writing and publishing community is populated by […]

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‘The Next Big Thing’ meme…

Thanks to Paula Weston and Fiona Wood for asking me to sign up to this. I wasn’t going to participate in this meme because so many other wonderful authors are on the brink of a new release and I’m barely out of the gate, but here we go – it sounds like fun. Here’s my […]

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Is reading overrated?

This question will be posed to a panel of authors, including me, at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival in August. I imagine the discussion will be decidedly against—like asking a scarecrow if he really needs all that straw. Well, yes. The essence of the scarecrow is in the straw (I’m gunning hard for the Bad […]

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Lost in translation

Voice recognition Message Bank—leave a voice message and it’ll be translated to text. Very cool, so Back to the Future. I must order a flux capacitator. Except here’s a message I left for my brother yesterday: Hey Bro. The whipper-snipper is behind the gate with a tin of fuel on the buggy. Thanks, Sis. Here’s the […]

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