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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Author name, books, fiction, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Just a Dog, MGB, Spring and Fall, The Running Man, The Windhover
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2024 Week 16: Where do I begin …
One of the most common questions writers get asked is ‘Where do you get your story ideas from?’ The truth is, they can come from anywhere. And for me at least, they’re often quite small things that grow and evolve … Continue reading
2024 Week 7: Dedicated to the Dedicatees – PART 1.
One of the things you have to think about when a new book is coming out is to whom, if anyone, are you going to dedicate it. Sometimes the answer is obvious and easy. Sometimes it takes a bit more … Continue reading
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Tagged Artspear Entertainment, book reviews, book-review, books, Celia Jellett, Dedications, Dinosaur Knights, Don't Call Me Ishmael, Dyan Blacklock, Editor, family, Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel, Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs, Joe Bauer, picture books, Publisher, Rita Artmann, Scholastic Australia, The Pain My Mother Sir Tiffy Cyber Boy and Me, The Running Man, The Void, Toon Sandwich, Untrue Crime, Writing
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2024 Week 4: Some things (sometimes) come to those who wait.
Way back at the start of 1998 I made the list of Resolutions below. (I just want you to know that my handwriting is usually much neater and clearer and more eloquent than this with a lovely, even slant to … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Diary, goals, new-year, Reading Challenge, Resolutions, Scholastic Australia, The Running Man, Writing
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