It’s been a BIG Book Week On Friday 19th August – the official start of Book Week – Jess Racklyeft and I were beyond thrilled when our picture book, Iceberg, was announced as the CBCA Picture Book of the Year. We were able to watch the announcement...
Historical Fiction Award Shortlist Well, this is exciting! Haywire is on the shortlist for Book Links Queensland’s inaugural historical fiction award. Details here! If you’re looking for me, I’m off dancing...
Haywire – a Taster A little taster from my novel “Haywire” which was published mid-pandemic. Notice the lovely silver sticker? “Haywire” was shortlisted in this year’s NSW Premier’s History Awards. Tom (Hay NSW) October 1939...
This morning about a dozen of us braved the elements (some better prepared than others) to gather in Mother Superior’s Chamber at The Convent in Abbotsford for Book Group.The theme for this month was Happy Endings and the three books were: May Gibbs Snugglepot...
Tonight is my last night in the May Gibbs apartment here in Adelaide. I’ve had a wonderful time, with the mix of writing, visiting and socially.I’m thrilled that I managed to complete the second draft of my novel while I was here . I finished this morning...
Speech Pathology Awards 2010 – Book of the Year Shortlist Very excited to see There Was an Old Sailor on the list! And wonderful company to be keeping. 🙂...
This is how it looks when you accidentally use a permanent marker on a whiteboard and then use the author-visit-learned trick of writing over it with a whiteboard marker to remove the permanent marker because that's the trick, but you use another permanent marker because you've packed all the whiteboard markers. No more notes for now. #packing#oops#ohmmm . #australanauthor#writingforyoungpeople... See MoreSee Less