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When Hollywood Comes Knocking – Part 3: Green Light!
17th Jun

When Hollywood Comes Knocking – Part 3: Green Light!

So your film’s been optioned, it’s spent years in development and now the script has been approved, the cast and crew are pretty well set… and finally you get that call. I…
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Thirty years in the making – where did Nim come from?
4th Feb

Thirty years in the making – where did Nim come from?

The wonderfully zany and multi-talented author Tristan Bancks said I had to write a blog post about my character or he’d never speak to me again. I mean, he invited me to…
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Setting Your Characters Free – From Book to Film and back again
30th Sep

Setting Your Characters Free – From Book to Film and back again

Bindi Irwin as Nim, from Return to Nim’s Island movie poster I know that tying in a film to a book sequel sounds like the writer’s equivalent of a first world problem, but…
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Name a character competition
14th Jan

Name a character competition

If you read my last post, you’ll know that at the last minute I decided I wanted to change some things in Rescue on Nim’s Island, which will be published by Allen…
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New Year’s Resolutions: Feeling Free and Playing with Your Work
1st Jan

New Year’s Resolutions: Feeling Free and Playing with Your Work

I started an eleventh hour revision of Rescue on Nim’s Island yesterday. If all had gone to plan, it would have already been copy-edited, which would mean it was too late for…
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Restlessness and rewards
10th Jul

Restlessness and rewards

I sent my editor the second draft of my new book last night.  First thing this morning she emailed to see she was printing it out to read, so I knew there…
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Good morning Singapore: Nim Stories interview on AM Live!
10th Jun

Good morning Singapore: Nim Stories interview on AM Live!

Singapore’s AM Live! has kindly posted the interview I did with Yvonne and Patrick last week. As well as looking great and being much  better at sitting still than I was, they…
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Tough Questions from Alphabet Soup
10th Apr

Tough Questions from Alphabet Soup

http://soupblog.wordpress.com I’ve just discovered something I didn’t know: that Nim’s Island was featured in the very first issue of Alphabet Soup! (I did know that Nim had some fans in the Alphabet…
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Special Melbourne Screening of Return to Nim’s Island
22nd Mar

Special Melbourne Screening of Return to Nim’s Island

A special screening of Return to Nim’s Island starring Bindi Irwin will be held at Palace Westgarth cinemas in Northcote, (Melbourne, Australia) on Thursday April 4 at 6:30pm. For your chance to meet Wendy Orr, the author…
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Return to Nim’s Island – National Premiere at Australia Zoo
13th Mar

Return to Nim’s Island – National Premiere at Australia Zoo

If you hurry, you can still buy tickets for the Return to Nim’s Island premiere on March 17 at Australia Zoo. What a wonderful place for it! (I’ve never been there before,…
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The Nim Story
10th Mar

The Nim Story

Return to Nim’s Island comes to the big screen in Australia five years to the day after Nim’s Island; five and a half years after Nim at Sea was published, ten years…
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Nim Stories in the Next Big Thing blog tag
14th Feb

Nim Stories in the Next Big Thing blog tag

My lovely friend, and brilliant artist and author Lauren Stringer tagged me for “The Next Big Thing,” and so after a bit of confusion, I’m doing it again with a different book.…
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