Today the three-way blogging conversation between Sally Murphy, Meg McKinlay and myself continues with the topic of things like shortlists, awards and recognition. You can find Sally's post here and Meg's post here. Keep reading →
Because it turned out to be quite fun for Meg McKinlay, Sally Murphy and me to all write about the same thing last week, we thought we’d try it again. Today our theme is ‘being edited’. Keep reading →
[I have done a Very Organised Thing, which is quite rare for me. This blog post has been timed to coordinate with two brilliant children's writers, Meg McKinlay and Sally Murphy, who have also blogged on the topic of being reviewed. Not that I actually Keep reading →
My hope, with this little series of posts about my own publishing experience, is that they might be useful to writers at the beginnings of their own journeys, wondering what lies ahead. I'm trying to write exactly what I would have liked to read in 2008! Keep reading →
I wrote in my last post that I think my creative writing teachers at school were right - it really is better to write about what you know. And just as I was having that realisation in my own writing-life, something interesting was happening Keep reading →
I am one of those people who reads how-to books. My partner, A., thinks this is hilarious. When he goes to the bathroom at my place (where there is always a stack of library books by my bath because I am a bath time reader) he generally comes out and says something like Keep reading →
While planning my outfit to meet Pippa Masson (of literary agency Curtis Brown Australia) for the first time, I did a quick google image search to find out what a children’s writer should look like. I was able to establish quite quickly that I needed bright orange hair with a very short wedgy fringe, green squarish horn-rimmed glasses and red shoes. Keep reading →
For the next couple of months after meeting Pippa but before hearing much from her again, I was a bit of a fruit loop. I wonder if this happens to all writers at this stage of the process? Keep reading →
There's a part of the story that I've left out so far so as not to clutter things up too much, but its important for the next stage of my writing journey so I'll tell you about it now. Right back when I was looking for an agent for Violet I also thought Keep reading →
This will be my last instalment in this series of blog posts about my own writing experience for a while because it brings me to the end of the parts of children’s publishing that I know anything about. With exactly that in mind, right now I wish so much that I could travel forward in time Keep reading →
