I recently read an article by David Cain on reading aloud. He talks about how he used it to find his way through long, tricky sentences, and again when he Continue reading

Book Week is coming, and all over Australia children’s authors are preparing for several intensive weeks of school visits. I’ll be visiting Sydney schools in the week starting Monday, August Continue reading

A week ago, the people in my little dead-end street of twelve houses held a mid-winter feast. My neighbour Gina and I had the idea last year, but were too Continue reading

My big news is that Spellhound won the 2024 Aurealis Award for Best Australian Children’s Fiction (fantasy and sf)! This was wildly exciting because the Aurealis is one of the Continue reading

It’s been a hectic month, with Fledgewitch released on April 4, followed by not one, but three book launches, all with the help of the State library of Tasmania. The Continue reading

It’s way too long since I updated my blog, but I absolutely have to do it today, because my new book Fledgewitch is here! This is the second Dragons of Continue reading

Happy book birthday to Spellhound, the first in the Dragons of Hallow series! I’m so excited to have this book out in the world at last, and am dying to Continue reading

I have a competition running at the moment, where you can win a copy of my new book, Spellhound. All you have to do is write a story involving a Continue reading

To my astonishment and delight, Ella and the Ocean was declared the winner of the Minister for the Arts Prize for Books for Children and Young People at the 2022 Continue reading

It feels as if it has been an awfully long time coming, but at last it’s publication day for Rita’s Revenge, the sequel to A Clue for Clara. The duck Continue reading