About 200 episodes of So You Want To Be A Writer podcast ago, I created this lovely little round-up of insightful interviews with Australian children's and YA authors. I have decided that it's high time for an update*. If you're hoping to be a published children's or...
In case you missed it, the latest round of #writeabookwithal is over and I have finished the first draft of my latest manuscript. It is, brace yourselves, the 15th first draft fiction manuscript that I have written. Fifteenth. Four were written before my first...
Last week I found myself compiling a list of books about writing for a young writer I know. She's 15, enthusiastic, stymied by the parameters of writing for school assignments, hungry for information, encouragement and advice. I tried to give her book suggestions that...
After a lot of hard work from a lot of people, my online creative writing course for kids is now open for bookings through the Australian Writers' Centre! So much goes into creating a course like this, from developing the course content, to creating each module, to...
If you've listened to the So You Want To Be A Writer podcast recently, you'll know two things about me: video is not my happy place, and I've recently created a new creative writing course for kids for the Australian Writers Centre. These two things came together in a...
Somehow my author blog turned nine and I missed it. When I started writing here, the blog was called Life In A Pink Fibro and it was a mish-mash of thoughts and parenting and writing and reading and... Hmmm, looks like not that much has changed, only I don't blog...
There's nothing quite like the experience of having your first novel appear on bookshop shelves. And nothing quite like the learning curve involved in getting the book there in the first place. Today, I'm pleased to welcome debut author Louise Allan to my blog, to...
When I asked Australian children's author Tim Harris to write me a post for kids who love to write, there was no question of the topic: remarkable characters. Tim's latest book, Mr Bambuckle's Remarkables, features a fabulous cast of characters and there's no doubt...
When I asked my friend Allison Rushby, author of many novels for children, YA and adults, to come up with a post full of writing tips for kids, I had to laugh when she sent me one with this headline: Writing for kids: stay weird, stay different But when I read...
