When I go into schools, kids often ask me, ‘In your books, who is your favourite character?’ It’s an impossible question to answer, because I love them all, even the Continue reading

The editing process for a novel is long and slow. But there are some really exciting moments in it, and one of the best is receiving First Pages from my Continue reading

I’m setting out to read the shortlist for this year’s Aurealis award for Best Children’s Fiction. First on the list is Jaclyn Moriarty’s The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Continue reading

The very first of my books to appear on a shortlist was Museum of Thieves, in the 2010 Aurealis awards for Australian fantasy/science fiction. It was wildly exciting seeing it Continue reading