by Julia Lawrinson | Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
I used to play classical guitar. I stopped when I realised I couldn’t make the sounds in my head come out of my fingers, and I’m still not sure whether this was a wise or foolish decision. Perhaps by now the Bach Preludes would have untangled themselves and I could...
by Julia Lawrinson | Sep 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Centre for Youth Literature‘s Mike Shuttleworth asked me some questions about The Push. They were published in the CYL’s mag last month, and are reproduced for those of you who stopped reading after the article on Shaun Tan. Can you tell me about the...
by Julia Lawrinson | Sep 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
You’re in the final throes of a novel. This is always painful, but it’s even more painful when you suspect that your plot is coming apart at the seams, and you lost your sewing kit somewhere around chapter 15. Characters have not arc-ed, your premise is wobbly, and...
by Julia Lawrinson | Sep 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
My puppy turned one yesterday. As I’ve had a series of hideous pet disasters ending in the death of my pets and/or others’ (cat-eating escaped greyhound, myxamatotic rabbits etc), I feel rather relieved (although the pup was chewed on by an escaped Husky a few months...
by Julia Lawrinson | Aug 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
I was very pleased to have The Push reviewed by Ian Nichols in this weekend’s West Weekend Magazine. There’s nothing like a review in your hometown, I have to say. The review started, ‘a premier exploration of the vague boundary between young adult and adult...
by Julia Lawrinson | Aug 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Well, I survived my speech to the Western Australian Children’s Book Council, although I was so nervous beforehand I could barely eat (now that’s nervous!). There was a bit of the blind-man-and-the-elephant going on: the next day one person said, ‘I hear you were...
