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NEWS: Best books of 2019 list.

My debut #LoveOZYA novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson appeared in the SA Weekend list of best books of 2019. I have screenshot the page below:

The photo is not too great, but my little book is in there, and that makes me feel happy.

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STORYTIME: Best Books of 2019 List!

How exciting!

My debut #LoveOZYA novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson appeared in the SA Weekend list of best books of 2019.

Which is ... fairly bonkers!
Wow!

YA AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Marissa Meyer, New York Times Bestselling Author

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Welcome to another YA Author Interview, and the final one for 2019!

Well, isn't this exciting?
When I got the opportunity to host an interview with Marissa Meyer (New York Times bestselling YA author of SO MANY BOOKS!) for my blog, I obviously jumped at the chance.

Then I asked fellow Aussie author, reader and friend, Simone Corletto if she could help me, and she very kindly said yes!

So a huge thank you to Marissa Meyer and Pan Macmillan for the interview, and Simone Corletto for...

TALL TALES NEWSLETTER: November 2019

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Welcome to the Tall Tales Newsletter!
This is YA author Poppy Nwosu here, and welcome to my November 2019 tall tales newsletter!

A huge WELCOMEto my new subscribers, and thank you for joining in! How exciting! (Even though...

WORDS: Patrick Wolf

Augustine.
Patrick Wolf.


As the bell tower blocks the summer light
All the seeds in our garden fight
To break and blossom, all to be adored

TALL TALES NEWSLETTER: October 2019

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Well ... hello everyone, this isPOPPY NWOSUhere, after a super long hiatus from these letters... haha, apparentlypublishing a book is really time consuming!
Who even knew?

So just in...

NEWS: Awarded the 2019 Writers SA residency at Varuna the Writer’s House

One of the most incredible things that happened to me in 2019, was being awarded the Writers SA residency at Varuna the Writer’s House.

I went to Varuna (in the Blue Mountains) for a week and I have never been so productive in my entire life!

I worked on a new project and wrote 50,000 words. This project is called Road Tripping with Pearl Nash.

I am so excited about the (still very rough) manuscript, and so grateful for my time at Varuna. I never get time like that. Days of unin...

My 2019 trip to Varuna The Writer's House

One of the most incredible things that happened to me in 2019, was being awarded the Writers SA residency at Varuna the Writer's House.

I went to Varuna (in the Blue Mountains) for a week and I have never been so productive in my entire life!

I worked on a new project and wrote 50,000 words.
I am so excited about the (still very rough) manuscript, and so grateful for my time at Varuna. I never get time like that. Days of uninterrupted writing time.
I made the most of it.

I cannot wait...

Why do I write YA?

Well becauseIloveYA (young adult fiction).
Obviously.

But to dig a little deeper than that, ...... .SometimesIthink aboutwhyIloveYAliterature so much.
I think about why I love it apart from the obvious (so many genres withinYA, you can read an endless array of extraordinarily diverse stories, from gritty contemporary to romance to far out fantasy or science fiction).

Ithink about this often.
WhydoIloveYA?

WhydoIlove towriteYA?


Whatisit aboutYAthat speaks so strongly to me?

Ithi...

WORDS: by City Girl

Anything Like Her
City Girl


And I wish
that I was anything like her.