by Claire Saxby | Jun 2025 | Children's Books, My Books
Book Writers and Illustrators at the School Library Conference I love conferences! Particularly bookish ones. Even ones that seem determined to flood the world with acronyms. How’s this? SCBWI (Aus East) presented two sessions at the National ASLA Conference that was...
by admin | Sep 2024 | Author Insights, Blog, Writing and Words
Revisions, Rejections, Redrafting of Manuscripts: A Rave I’ve been doing quite a few revisions lately. Some are redrafting, the natural progression of a manuscript and others are following submissions and are in response to editor feedback. There must be another...
by Claire Saxby | Mar 2024 | Blog, My Books
A Tree is Born Well, actually that’s not quite right, really. The book is ‘born’ ie released into the wild in early April 2024. The tree that is the subject of ‘Tree’ is about 350 years old. Our story is much younger than that. In September, 2022, Jess Racklyeft and I...
by Claire Saxby | Nov 2023 | Blog, My Books, Narrrative non-fiction, Nature, New Release
A new book! Secrets of the Saltmarsh. Making books is a long game. Very few parts of the process happen quickly. Often, it can seem like there’s nothing going on. Sometimes it feels like everything is invisible. But out of public sight, a book is being created. For...
by Claire Saxby | Nov 2022 | My Books, Writing and Words
The world is big, and small The life of a writer can be a varied one. One minute you’re bemoaning the fact that you haven’t left the house for days and there’s no food anywhere. The next, you’re up before dawn for a daytrip interstate. And the next next, if you get my...
by Claire Saxby | Sep 2022 | Awards, Blog, My Books
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...