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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 →

2024 Week 18: Would a ‘me’ by any other name smell just as sweet?

In the last blog I looked back 20 years to when my writing career began with the publication of The Running Man and talked about the creation of my first book cover. This week I thought I’d look back 20 …

2024 Week 17: A cover story.

My first novel The Running Man was published in 2004. My wonderful publisher at the time Dyan Blacklock assured me that the book would be around for 20 years. Ha! Sure. But she was right. This year marks the novel’s … Continue reading →