Tag: Nim's Island Archives · Wendy Orr
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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