Thank you to everyone who commented and asked questions on The Age newspaper website blog about my chapter in the MS Readathon competition. Read the rest of this entry »

I went to Shanghai in search of Mirabel, the character in my latest novel, Little Paradise. I walked the winding tree-lined streets of the old French and International concessions and pushed through the crowds of Nanjing Road and the Bund. Read the rest of this entry »

I have just returned from a trip to Shanghai and Nanjing presenting books gifted to Shanghai and Nanjing libraries by 49 Australian children’s authors. Read the rest of this entry »

Being a writer of children’s fiction has its benefits in the age race. When I’m writing a novel, I inhabit the mind of my young protagonist. At the moment I’m 11, going on 12 which Read the rest of this entry »