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366 Books – March Update

This is my third month of my year long self-challenge to read a book a day – that is 366 books in 366 days, to celebrate the National year of Reading. I must confess that having started strongly in January, and keeping up to target in February, march saw a bit of a slide, and although I'm not yet up to the April report, things are looking a bit grim. When I set myself the challenge I didn't

Last Stop

Wow. It's been a busy start to the month, with Do Not Forget Australia released on March 1 and , since then, the blog tour taking me all around the blogosphere.



Today is the last day in the tour, so if you haven't managed to grab yourself a copy of the book, pop over to Lorraine's blog where you could win yourself a copy.

And, if you want to go back and catch up on the rest of the tour, the

A Visit from Tania

I'm happy today to welcome Tania McCartney to my blog, here to talk about her excellent new book Australian Story. Over to you, Tania.
I adore non-fiction books. Always have. And I'm particularly obsessed with history books . . . anything from fat, scantily-fonted tomes on Julius Caesar through to Horrible Histories laugh-fests for 8- to 12-year-olds. I love them all – and, having studied

The blog tour for Do Not Forget Australia continues, and ...

The blog tour for Do Not Forget Australia continues, and today I'm delighted to be visiting Dale Hacrombe's blog and talking about characters. Dale has also posted a lovely review of the book.

Do stop by and stay hello. There is a copy of Do Not Forget Australia to be be won!

Just dropping in briefly to say that today I'm busy answe...

Just dropping in briefly to say that today I'm busy answering questions over at Kerri Lane's blog  and would love to see you there. There are also copies of Do NotForget Australia to be won!

Have a great day.

366 Books February Update

Two months into the National Year of Reading, means two months down in my attempt to read 366 books this year. That means it must also be time for an update.
So 31 days in January, 29 days in February means, by now, I should have read 60 books. And guess what – that's exactly where I'm at! On target to get to 366 books. These are the books I read in February:

34 Come Down, Cat Sonya

A New Book!

Happy happy day! I am really thrilled, excited, delighted, happy and ecstatic to announce that today marks the release of my new book baby, Do Not Forget Australia, published by Walker Books and illustrated by the extraordinarily talented Sonia Kretchsmar.





 I was lucky enough to speak at the Perth Writer's Festival on the weekend, and got the chance to share Do Not Forget Australia with

Recognition - and What It Means

Time for Meg, Anna and I to once again ruminate on a single topic across our three different blogs. If you've been hiding under a rock these past three weeks - or just simply haven't had time to check out our blogs - each week we've been each blogging on our individual blogs on the same topic, and then discussing the similarities and differences in our approaches.

Today's topic is, quite

Win Head Hog

I still smile whenever I see the cover of Head Hog which, if you haven't been following here, was released late last year. Illustrator Ben Wood did a fabulous job of the illustrations and the finished product is very cute.

If you've not yet had a chance to read the book, this could  your lucky week, because all this week, Kids Book Review (KBR) are running a giveaway. All you have to do is

Being Edited - and Living to Tell the Tale

Last week, I got together with the awesome Meg McKinlay and Anna Branford to discuss what it was like to be reviewed. This week we're doing the same thing - three of us posting on the same topic each on our blogs - except on a different topic. This week's topic is what it's like to be edited.

I'm going to say two things at the outset. One is that for many aspiring writers, the term editing is