I am a writer, editor, podcaster and writing teacher... I have ten books published, including three Young Adult novels, and non-fiction for young people and for adults, and a junior fiction series of sports books. I've won awards and shortlisted in a bunch of others for writing and podcasting. I'm a founding member of the award winning all-female AFL podcast and radio show, The Outer Sanctum.
It’s finally here! The first of our AFL series, co-written with Adrian Beck, published by Hardie Grant Egmont. It’s available in all the best bookshops, and has already garnered some lovely reviews.
Due to a scheduling rearrangement, I have TWO new slots open for manuscript assessments or editorial consultation – for example, a structural or developmental edit. (Note: I don’t do copy edits.)
Always great fun to hang with other writers and illustrators AND ALL THOSE KIDS! The YABBA folk do amazing work connecting us with our lovely readers, not to mention a fun afternoon. Huge thanks to Camberwell Girls Grammar School for hosting us.
This is not a drill. I’m running one last workshop for 2019 at the Abbotsford Convent, November 23 and 24. Creative Writing Stage 1 is an intensive, FUN, weekend dedicated to showing you the foundations of how to turn an idea into a story.
So I turn my back for a few minutes and what happens? Some random bot slides in and turns my website into an illegal pharmacy.
Not cool, Random Bot. Not cool.
Anyway, hopefully this post will find you well and less confused, and you’ll return to my site again with more confidence that it will actually BE my site.
The latest news in my world is that I’m nearing the end of this draft of my latest YA novel, and am cramming as much footy into my small, overwrought brain as it can handle.
Other than that, I’ve got a new gig teaching Sports Media, which is both challenging and exciting, but also taking up much time, so hopefully I’ll be able to get back here more often to check in.