More from Childrens Book Week

Can you pick the severed head? Another great day for Childrens Book Week…thanks everybody! I was really happy to get this picture of some of the Burrendah Primary kids at Willetton Library today with their 2-fruit and 5-vege *and* a severed head. Awesome! And I’m also stoked with this great review of Filth Licker on [...]

Read Full Post »

Hello all you Childrens Book Week kids!!!

All this week and part of last week I have had the ABSOLUTE pleasure of meeting hundreds of kids from local primary schools around Perth, all part of some terrific Childrens Book Week presentations organised by our fabulous libraries. (THANK YOU lovely librarians!! You make the day possible!) By the end of the week, I’ll [...]

Read Full Post »

Let the Book Week begin!

Woo hoo! Childrens Book Week has begun! I spent this morning at Belmont’s Ruth Faulkner Public Library with students in Year 6 and 7 and it was terrific fun! It’s SO GOOD to scare readers share with readers some of the legends behind the Japanese demons from my books. The kids had heaps of great [...]

Read Full Post »

Writing, Book-Weeking, Monstering on!

Writing, writing, writing Well, it’s been a busy time and I’m flat out writing a 4th Takeshita Demons book….YAY! This does mean I’ve been massively distracted from blogging (sorry!), but I do tend to go into my cave when the writing’s really working. And it’s working! (I always say that in the beginning of a [...]

Read Full Post »

8 bits of great news: HOORAY!

Long time – no post! But I have heaps of great news to make up for it: GREAT NEWS #1: Takeshita Demons and The Filth Licker are being translated into Indonesian! YAY! GREAT NEWS #2: I’m performing at the Perth Writer’s Festival on Family Day: YAY! More details soon… GREAT NEWS #3: I’m also appearing [...]

Read Full Post »