by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Greetings from 2024! Yesterday, I recorded the first three podcasts for the imaginatively entitled series How To Avoid A Happy Life: The Podcast. Producer Danae Gibson and I managed, through much laughter and more retakes, to not only record a fair/editable recording,...
by Julia Lawrinson | Aug 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Another Children’s Book Week has come and gone, and I was delighted to share stories with kids at Carmel School, Lesmurdie Library and High Wycombe Library for City of Kalamunda. I always love meeting readers and seeing their enthusiasm for books and writing. Thank...
by Julia Lawrinson | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
It was twenty years ago today It felt wonderfully apt to be speaking (launching, after a fashion!) City of Light at the 20th anniversary of A Night With Our Stars. This event began as a twinkle in the eye of Jenny Woodroffe in 2003, and its light has been kept burning...
by Julia Lawrinson | Jan 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
One day, several years ago, I was minding my own business when I got a message through the contact form on this website. I’ve had some lovely messages before – people in their twenties and thirties who loved my early novels when they were teenagers, researchers...
by Julia Lawrinson | Sep 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader, it’s BookWeekMonth for creators of children’s and young adult books, as well as most teachers and long-suffering costume-creating parents around Australia. I was hugely thrilled to return to Kalgoorlie in Wongatha country for my first gigs there since …...
by Julia Lawrinson | Jan 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader, Shortly I will be launching a new blog here, detailing my trials, tribulations and hopefully triumphs in writing in a completely new genre, the memoir. I am debating whether to create a blog separate to this website so that the kids’ content and the more...
