Claire’s Blog

Today I'm visiting friend and fellow author, Gabrielle Wang, talking about my first ever book, my writing space and my newest book.

Tulips for my birthday. Gorgeous.This is a native hibiscus struck from one my folks have in their garden. It grows really quickly, is pretty, hardy...

We spent the evening of the big moon riverside trying to capture it's size. I'm not sure we really captured the relative size but it was a lovely...

...on Friday night's ASA panel discussion on digital rights, go here. Thanks Dee for taking notes and pictures.

Last night I trained into the city for the ASA panel discussion about digital rights, that murky evolving section of our industry (and many others)....

Last year I recorded a television episode for a program called 'Tall Ted's Story Time'. I shared the gig with Jackie Kerin and we featured my...

It's no secret I love flowers. Not alone there.This week, flowers made me smile in two ways. The first was a morning tea where we chatted books and...

...I'm over at at the same time, talking about the 'Art of Promotion'.

I've put on the kettle, and baked a batch of cakes, coz today I have a visitor!Catriona Hoy is a picture book writer, secondary science teacher and...

Having fun with a macro lensNature is random, but very prettily so.This flower is about 1cm diameter and just wouldn't stay still to be photograped...

In which...I learnt that I am to be 'in conversation' with Alison Lester at Williamstown Literary Festival on 30 April.It was confirmed that with...

My sunflowers were enormous this year. A good six feet tall and bigger than dinnerplates. But although the seeds looked huge too, they were almost...

This time next week, this space will be overflowing with picture books, none of them mine. I'll be talking to Catriona Hoy, picture book writer. I'm...

The State Library of Victoria is a wonderful place. For distraction-free studying/reading, try the beautiful La Trobe Reading Room...that's the one...

My picture book, "There Was an Old Sailor" is appearing today on Dee White's Boomerang Books blog, Kids' Book Capers. Pop by and say hello.

This weekend was a busy one.Saturday was SCBWI meeting, sandwiched between our choir performance at the Yarraville Festival and a masked birthday...