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2024 Week 28: Going (back to) where the weather suits my clothes.

Back home from a chilly Melbourne to a much more mild and user-friendly Brissie winter. We had a lovely time down south including a great night out at the spectaclar LIGHTSCAPE in the Royal Botoanical Gardens. On the writing front … Continue reading →

2024 Week 27: In which three men walk into a bar but I’m not sure why or who they are or what happens next because I wasn’t one of them and I’m terrible at remembering jokes. Sorry.

While I’m down in Melbourne with not much time on my hands I thought I’d revisit and update a post I did some time ago about my pathetic joke-telling ability. The cartoons included are very early ones from my talented … Continue reading →

2024 Week 26: Very quick late mail – Queensland to Victoria.

Ok this blog is definitely a few days late but at least I’m still on track for my Blog a Week goal for 2024. So here’s a quick catch-up of some recent happenings. We decided it was probably time to … Continue reading →

2024 Week 25: A brief Photo-Essay.

I visited the … … a couple of times this week. Why? Well I can’t say specifically but mainly it was … Anyway, while I was there I thought I’d check out the Museum and the Art Gallery precinct and … Continue reading →

2024 Week 24: Ten SURE-FIRE ways to beat WRITER’S BLOCK – Revisited!

In one of my very early blogs I wrote about beating Writer’s Block and since I’m late with this blog, am strapped for time and can’t think of anything to write, I thought a revisit would be highly appropriate!    … Continue reading →

2024 Week 23: And the Words of the Prophets were written on the Library Desks …

When I started at the University of Queensland in the 70s (!) there was an out-of-the-way area on the upper levels of the MAIN LIBRARY where I used to regularly sit with a group of friends. The desks looked like … Continue reading →

2024 Week 22: Home again, Home again, Jiggity-Jig.

Well we’re back home from CANBERRA and the Corridors of Power and just in time too! WINTER has now officially arrived. Of course it’s a well known fact that if born and bred Queenslanders are trapped down SOUTH when WINTER … Continue reading →

2024 Week 21: Our brief Canberra visit explained in (badly) rhyming couplets.

Mike and Adriana BAUERIn the Corridors of POWERThere to visit Uncle JIM(Back row, middle boy – that’s HIM!) Then Ar-bor-e-tum shared its VIEWWith 50,000 trees they GREWAnd even more there was to SEEUp on the peak of Mount AINSLIE* (*Author’s … Continue reading →

2024 Week 20: I read the news today, oh boy …

When my first young adult book was about to come out, my publisher Dyan Blacklock predicted that I would love being part of the children’s writing community in Australia. As usual, she was right. I did. And I do. In … Continue reading →

2024 Week 19: Question and (ridiculous) Answer session.

Over the 20 years (Yikes!) since my first book The Running Man was published I’ve answered quite a lot of interview questions about my stories and writing and about myself. So I thought I’d look back and just pick out … Continue reading →