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
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June 2nd, 2024
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
May 5th, 2024
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
April 4th, 2024
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
October 4th, 2020
We had a book launch for A Clue for Clara two weeks ago, at the Hobart Bookshop in Salamanca Square. It was supposed to be deadly serious – well, except Continue reading
August 16th, 2020
So Clara is out in the world at last, and I’m waiting anxiously to hear what people think of her. I hope they love this scruffy little chook as much Continue reading
August 11th, 2019
I was flicking through an old notebook from 1994 the day before yesterday, and found the very first note of the idea that eventually turned into my picture book, Ella Continue reading
July 7th, 2019
Ella lived in the red-dirt country where the earth was as dry as old bones and it hadn’t rained for years and years and years. It’s four weeks and a Continue reading