Monthly Archives: October 2024

2024 Week 43: Everyone’s a critic.

Posted on October 29, 2024 by mgbauer

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 →

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

Posted on October 24, 2024 by mgbauer

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 →

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

Posted on October 17, 2024 by mgbauer

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 →

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2024 Week 40: Picture book update.

Posted on October 10, 2024 by mgbauer

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 →