Claire’s Blog

Literature Festival

I'm very much looking forward to this annual MARC Literature Festival, this year hosted by Marysville Primary School. MARC = Mobile Area Resource...

Update October 2019

Update October 2019

Update October 2019 Coming Soon (2020): Kookaburra, illustrated by Tannya Harricks, published Walker Books Australia Haywire, a novel Scholastic...

Peaking

Bookweek is peak school-visit time for writers and illustrators and over recent years, the 'week' has (fortunately) extended to a much longer time....

A coupla pics

Thank you Robinsons Bookshop (Werribee) for supporting my visit to Tarneit Library. The wonderful Tarneit (Wyndham) Library. Thanks for such a warm...

From here to there

I am halfway through a schedule of four events in less than 7 days. Not that I'm thinking this is necessarily a heavy speaking load, but it is...

Paperback Writer

It's been a week or so of parcels. I love parcels. Who doesn't? Each one of the parcels has contained books. There were paperback editions of Koala...

Oh, what a night!

It started with a - no, not a kiss, although it's possible that my header suggested a song. It started with a 'The Anzac Billy' event at my...

The Anzac Billy and more …

The Anzac Billy and more I missed April 1 this year. It sailed right on by with nary a peep ... Not that I celebrate it particularly, but I just...

A Big Week

I take a lot of photos. Taking photos makes me slow down and focus on tiny things and in many ways, it's a meditation. But there's not been a lot of...

Coming Soon – The Anzac Billy

Coming Soon - The Anzac Billy The first copy of The Anzac Billy arrived in my letterbox last week. And it's so beautiful. The artwork by Mark...

APAD2019 Dandelion

Dandelion after the yellow bright petals wither powder fluff seeds wait for wind set seeds adrift adrift adrift float where the wind wills softly...

APAD2019 Precision

Precision row after row petals open in prescribed sequence frills and flounces as ordered as any parade ground march   More

APAD2019 Stars

Stars tiny star clusters soft-nested on broad green sky silent starburst blooms   More