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2024 Week 48: Georgia on my mind.

No, not that Georgia. Not Ray Charles’ Georgia. I mean Eastern European Georgia. The Georgia whose capital city is Tbilisi and whose population is around 4 million. This one. This particular Georgia is on my mind because I just received … Continue reading →

2024 Week 47: The return of the Return of the Dugongs!

Recently the first book in the Ishmael series, Don’t Call Me Ishmael, was reprinted (for the 27th time!) and given a slightly updated new cover. Unfortunately though, the second and third books in the series have been out of print … Continue reading →

2024 Week 46: You’ve got email!

One of the great things in my writing career has been that every now and then, out of the blue, I receive emails from readers telling me something about what my books have meant to them. Usually it’s good stuff. … Continue reading →

2024 Week 45: A mixed bag.

So I been desperately trying to think what I might put in this week’s blog. A shot of me looking far too excited beside our most recent bunch of bananas? Nah. I’ve done that before. A compilation of shots of … Continue reading →

2024 Week 44: Once upon a festival …

Last week my wife and I headed down to Glenelg, South Australia where I was one of the lucky authors taking part in the ONCE UPON A FESTIVAL at IMMANUEL COLLEGE. Lots of schools were involved and it was great … Continue reading →

2024 Week 43: Everyone’s a critic.

Last week’s blog was about showing your creation to the world and not knowing how it will be reviewed. Because I’ve been preparing a talk on Don’t Call Me Ishmael, I was reminded of the following scene. It’s from the … Continue reading →

2024 Week 42: “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.”

Facebook memories today threw up some photos from 2019 when The Things That Will Not Stand won the Prime Minister’s Award for Young Adult Literature. The narrator of the book is a sixteen year old boy called SEBASTIAN. He’s currently … Continue reading →

2024 Week 41: These are the days of miracle and wonder. This is the long distance call

So in about 12 hours time at 3.00 am Thursday morning I’ll be talking via ZOOM to a class of Year 7 students at Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, a GERMAN school in MEXICO about my book DON’T CALL ME … Continue reading →

2024 Week 40: Picture book update.

This week I got to see the FINAL PAGES for the cover, ends and internals of my new PICTURE BOOK which is due to be released in February 2025. I’m really happy with how it’s turned out. It’s looking great! I … Continue reading →

2024 Week 39: And the moon rose over an open field.

Back when I was at University I completed a lot of English subjects. You needed 60 credits points for an English major in your B.A. which usually meant doing 6 semester-long subjects. I ended up with the equivalent of a … Continue reading →