by Julia Lawrinson | Mar 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m doing hardcopy edits on Famous! at the moment, and one of the insightful comments from my wonderful Penguin editors was about how Sophie, the main character, would imagine being famous, and whether it would involve nice food. Of course! Someone once said that...
by Julia Lawrinson | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Since I was 23 and experienced the delights of being catapulted off a runaway, galloping horse and onto a number of very uncomfortable logs in the high country of Victoria, I have had a reasonably and reluctantly close acquaintance with bodily pain. Four years after...
by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have a new, six-month gig in the dayjob, and it’s pretty frantic, so I was delighted and surprised to get an email from my Penguin editors Katrina and Katie saying that my upcoming Chomp, Famous!, is almost ready for its final edit, and that Michelle Katsouranis is...
by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re a writer and you want to do something to assist the Victorian bushfire victims, the ASA has kindly provided a link to Tali Lavi’s email, so you can send her signed books to distribute around the affected towns. It doesn’t feel like a great deal, but I...
by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a fan of Russell Hoban ever since I read his sublime Turtle Diary when I was 17. He combines wit, elegance of phrase and deep insight into the human condition with cracking storytelling. (I also love the way he moves between children’s and adult works...
by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ll be chairing two sessions for the Perth Writers’ Festival this month, one on censorship in young adult writing with Sally Rippin, Libby Gleeson and AJ Betts, and one on fable with Rana Dasgupta (who has a very cool website), Sonya Hartnett and Arnold Zable. Check...
