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A Tale of Two Covers (and a Poster)
Well, not so much a tale as a – oh, anyway, here they are: I am so happy with this I could just burst! Thank you Marina. The Chinese cover of Famous! Yes, that is photoshopped. But it is the best welcome I’ve had to a school...
Writing exciting
In an otherwise trying week, I had a burst of writing-related serendipity on Wednesday. Sometimes, with writing, you feel like you’re trying to melt glass with your breath: it just won’t yield, and no matter the effort you expend. Sometimes it’s not the writing...
Bits and pieces
1. Back in the early 90s, when I first got into the writing scene in Perth, there was an incredible bubbling of energy, ideas and poetry collections from writers like Morgan Yasbincek, Tracy Ryan, Barbara Temperton, Marcella Polain, and Sarah French, to name but a...
Back soon
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...
Boy bits
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...
Bye, Beautiful and places in the sun
Writing can seem like a lot of effort for little reward. Your books (if you’re lucky enough to get published in the first place) might be ignored, go out of print, drop off the radar (or never be picked up by the beacon in the first place), or date too quickly (I...
Ten long years
This week I spent three days at the wonderful All Saints Literature Festival. It’s the ten year anniversary of the festival, which made me realise with a jolt that it’s ten years since Obsession was published: All Saints was the first festival I presented at. My...
My Carita
The one event I saw at the Perth Writers Festival this year was Richard Lloyd Parry speaking about People Who Eat Darkness, which partly deals with Joji Obara, a Japanese-Korean serial killer who, after a long and torturous legal process, has only recently been given...
Brigid Lowry’s Triple Ripple launch
‘In these uncertain times playfulness, whimsy, creativity, music, writing and art are all the more important. Here’s to the things that nourish and support us and provide our brave selves with hope.’ Brigid Lowry Last night I launched Brigid’s wonderful, playful,...
Guest posting and glory
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will know that this week Shaun Tan won an Oscar* for the animated adaptation of The Lost Thing. The kids’ lit community in Australia went nuts with joy and with pride, intensified by the fact that not only is Shaun a rare...