Well I’ve been really slack with blogging this year. (Yes I know, I’m shocked too.) Not sure where the time has gone.

On the writing front I have two picture books contracted with Scholastic Australia – one to come out in 2024 and one in 2025 – so that’s really pleasing. Both involve animals, neither of which is this rabbit.

In other great news RODNEY FORGETS IT! has been shortlisted for the 2023 Speech Pathology Awards in the 3-5 year category.

And … RODNEY LOSES IT! has been shortlisted in the 2023 R.E.A.L. Awards Shortlist in the Picture Book category. The R.E.A.L. Awards (Reading and Enjoying Australian Literature) are the children’s choice book awards in Australia. This means that Rodney is shortlisted in the three separate state awards – the YABBAs, KOALAs, and KROCs – and is eligible to be a winner in any and/or all of them when the children of Australia vote later this year. 

In further writing news I finally completed a YA manuscript that I started way back in 2019 when I was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship to work on it. It is now currently looking for a home.

Apart from that I went to these places and did these things which I feel are all pretty much self-explanatory.

More recently I died a thousand deaths as I watched my favourite team lose the unlosable Grand Final. Still in recovery mode and doing as well as could be expected.

Next year Broncos!

And lastly, this is what I’ll be doing in just over a week and I’ll be hoping with all my heart that the vast majority of my fellow Australians might decide to do like-wise.

Cheers
Michael