Whirlwind tour for …Old Sailor

This is the blog tour to celebrate the release of ‘There Was an Old Sailor’! Check out these blogs:

• Sally Murphy’s Writing for Children
• Dee White’s Tuesday Writing Tips
• Dale Harcombe’s Read and Write with Dale
• Robyn Opie’s Writing Children’s books
• Lorraine Marwood’s Words into Writing
• Mabel Kaplan’s Tales I Tell
• Sandy Fussell’s Stories are Light

First to Western Australia and Sally Murphy’s blog.

My blog tour for ‘There Was an Old Sailor’ is great fun and has stretched me to look at why I wrote the story the way I did, and how. There were elements I’d forgotten, like the animals that were included, discarded then included. I’d forgotten the challenges of working within a frame.

It also reminded me about the wonders of the internet and blog touring. It’s so flatchat with a myriad other things that I’d never had been able to make half the visits I had, if they were reliant on me getting anywhere and sounding half-rational.

It’s a small world.

And then last night, I spoke to a local acquaintance who knows Cassandra Allen, the illustrator of ‘There Was an Old Sailor‘, even naming his daughter after her. And I realised I knew her. She worked on the local literary festival youth committee with my son. Small, small world.

More about the release of “Old Sailor”