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Dragonflies: myths, meanings and mysteries
1st Jul

Dragonflies: myths, meanings and mysteries

Dragonfly photo sent by my cousin when she heard the title Happy birth day to my newest baby: Dragonfly Song. You’ve been a long time coming. The dragonfly theme in the book…
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Advice on first steps in getting published
19th Nov

Advice on first steps in getting published

Open letter to new writers: Writing a manuscript is hard enough, but submissions can be downright scary. I get a lot of requests for advice, and although my own commitments won’t allow…
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Plotting, planning, and the terror of a new story
13th Oct

Plotting, planning, and the terror of a new story

I’ve been planning a new book for the last while – it’s always hard to say how long for, because some ideas for it have been floating around for several years. But…
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Tangles – getting inside a child protagonist’s head
19th Sep

Tangles – getting inside a child protagonist’s head

Errol Broome is, I think, one of Australia’s best writers for children. I’ve just reread Tangles, which is sadly out of print, and have been impressed all over again. The blurb begins…
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Dead Parents in Fiction
17th Sep

Dead Parents in Fiction

A mother and daughter book group reading Nim’s Island wrote to say they were thinking of changing their name to the Dead Parents Book club, as they’d done so many books where…
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Interview with Audrey, a teen reader & blogger
27th Aug

Interview with Audrey, a teen reader & blogger

A Type Of Teen blog interview Something very special about being interviewed by one of my readers! Audrey is 13 and runs the very impressive atypeofteen wordpress blog. She recently interviewed me…
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Diving Deeper into your story:
12th Feb

Diving Deeper into your story:

Yesterday, Margo Lanagan tweeted pictures of the scrapbooks she used while working on her new novel  Sea Hearts (which I’m dying to read, not only because Selkies are dear to my heart,…
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Storytellers
24th May

Storytellers

Last week was Education Week in Australia, and I went to two great schools: Cheltenham East and Amsleigh Park, as a Premier’s Reading Ambassador. Then on Thursday I went to our local…
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Mother’s Day Writing Thoughts
9th May

Mother’s Day Writing Thoughts

It’s Mother’s Day in Australia, but for various geographical reasons we’re celebrating it before and after… so today I’m thinking about my imaginary children instead. As a writer who is also a…
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