Happy World Oceans Day How wonderful are our oceans? From the beach to the rock pools to the deep dark trenches, there is so much to love, so much to wonder at. Perhaps it’s not such a surprise that the ocean has been a feature of many of my books. It’s...
Iceberg – The real, live Book Launch Organising booklaunches can be tricky at the best of times. Whatever time or date chosen, there are going to be calendar clashes, prior engagements, other priorities, venue restrictions. Add in a 5-day lockdown just as...
Iceberg: From Idea to Book Picture books do not happen overnight. No books do. But man it’s exciting when they finally do make it into the world. What begins as a word or an idea, and grows and changes endlessly before submission. This story began as a poem...
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