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2024 Week 44: Once upon a festival …

Last week my wife and I headed down to Glenelg, South Australia where I was one of the lucky authors taking part in the ONCE UPON A FESTIVAL at IMMANUEL COLLEGE. Lots of schools were involved and it was great … Continue reading

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2024 Week 43: Everyone’s a critic.

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.” 

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

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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