by Julia Lawrinson | Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m going to Melbourne shortly, mainly to talk to mobs of kids for Children’s Book Week (on which note, I congratulate my fellow writers for their success in the awards, particularly the magic-dusted Sally Murphy). En route I will be wearing a face mask to stave off...
by Julia Lawrinson | Aug 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
… is getting reviews like this: I love to play chess, so when I went to the library yesterday and saw this book I instantly wanted to read it. I was right about the book. It was so good that I was reading till 11:30. My mum told me to go to sleep an hour and a half...
by Julia Lawrinson | Aug 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
My Aussie Chomp Famous! is going to be published in China. For a book whose inspiration was my experience of the uber-Australian (or should that be uber-bogan) Hey Hey It’s Saturday, that’s not bad. Lots of my writing friends have been multiply published all over...
by Julia Lawrinson | May 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Having sent off major rewrite of the V Girls to my dear, patient publishers, my head is full of scattery thoughts and reflections, like: 1. Last weekend I went to the 80th birthday of a third cousin, Dawnie, a wonderful, lively woman who is an inspiration re how to...
by Julia Lawrinson | Apr 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
I don’t have a television. It’s my daughter’s fault. I’d warned her that if we had another argument about turning the telly off, I’d get rid of it. She argued; I called the neighbours. After they’d taken my temperature, they took away the television, as well as...
by Julia Lawrinson | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Maybe everyone in the world has seen this, except me, but it’s great. Almost as good as this.
