This is what I love about Perth Writers’ Festival: hanging out with my favourite writers, and meeting a few new fabulous ones, like Ambelin Kwaymullina (The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf) and Emma Chapman (The Good Wife): I highly recommend both debuts to you. I also...
1. Forgive me banging on (yes, this is the post of double entendres), but on 28 March 2012, Losing It will make its way into the world. Penguin has been doing some great pre-publicity and whipping up anticipation (see here and here), and I can’t wait. It seems an...
Sorry for coming off all Enid Blyton-ish in the title. But here in Perth it is a glorious May Day, which makes one want to write in rhyming couplets (or is that just me?) of jolly things. I’ll try to restrain myself. Some random things, writing and otherwise: 1. ...
When I was a child, I had my own planet, named Jobnye. In several brown-paper-covered notebooks, I chronicled the features of Jobnye: its monetary system (complete with samples of its coins, tin foil wrapped over cardboard circles), its political system (complete with...
Just a quick note to you, my one reader, to apologise for the sporadic nature of this blog. I have been doing other things, like writing (who knew?!) and running amok at Rottnest Island with other naughty writers and illustrators. But I’ll report in soon, with tales...
When I asked my Facebook buddies about modern terminology for boy bits – for the purposes of the latest version of Losing It (yes, really!) – it caused much household mirth, as middle-aged and otherwise respectable parents called out to their offspring, ‘Hey! What do...
