Otherworlds

July 16, 2021

OTHER WORLDS in Book Week

The following article was recently published in the CBCA Vic Branch Newsletter. OTHER WORLDS in the classroom Each year the Book Week theme opens the doors of possibility, giving teachers and librarians an opportunity to get children engaged with reading. But more than that, these themes can lead to classroom discussions on a wide variety […]

August 7, 2020

George Attempts to Draw

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As the Melbourne Lockdown continues, I want to continue making vids. But, I don’t want to be doing the same thing over and over again. So I thought I’d try something a little different. A set of short videos about drawing… even though I am REALLY BAD at drawing. I’m hoping that they might encourage […]

July 29, 2020

GAME WORLD reading

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Another reading, this time from OTHER WORLDS: Game World. Computer games, robot birds, laser pistols and a car chase… what more could you want? As usual, shot on my iPhone and edited with iMovie. This time I played around with multiple angles and editing. Hope you like it.

April 22, 2020

Beast World reading

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Here’s another reading. This one is from Beast World, which is Book 2 in the OTHER WORLDS series. Although these books can be read as a sequential series, they are also designed to work as stand-alones. This time, I’ve played around a bit with editing and special effects. I am very much enjoying the process of creating […]

March 23, 2020

Videos and Virtual Visits

Appearances, Australia Survival Guide, books, Doctor Who, Gamers series, Nonfiction, Otherworlds, RFDS, The Human Body Survival Guide

Life in Australia has become rather strange since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. Social distancing has become a thing, hand sanitising is now the norm, and panic buying of toilet paper has hit insanity levels. But schools have also been affected. Many have closed due to staff or students having contracted the virus. States […]

January 1, 2020

2019 wrap up

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It’s the New Year! It’s the New Decade! It’s time to celebrate and look forward to 2020, which has such a lovely science-fiction ring to it. But it’s also a chance to look back and celebrate the past as well. My BIG publication for 2019 was The Australia Survival Guide, released on 1 October by Puffin […]

January 3, 2019

2018 wrap up

Appearances, books, Education market, Otherworlds, Writing, You Choose series

Blimey… what a year! 2018 was busy. Real busy! Like, super busy! Lots of writing and touring and speaking. It was all pretty amazing! The big thing was, of course, the publication of the OTHER WORLDS series. Four sci-fi/fantasy/adventure books for kids aged 8 and up. Books 1 and 2 came out in February and […]

September 30, 2018

OTHER WORLDS reviews

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Getting a good review is pretty great. But getting a good review in which your writing is compared to someone/something you are a fan of… well… that’s just AWESOME! In her Magpies magazine review of Game World, Beth Dolan wrote: “Special mention of the mother-figure who could challenge Coraline’s Button Mother for creepy malevolence.” OMG! […]

June 15, 2018

OTHER WORLDS series trailer

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After individual trailers for Perfect World and Beast World, we now have a trailer for the OTHER WORLDS series as a whole. 🙂

May 28, 2018

Publication Day

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Game World and Dark World (books 3 and 4 of OTHER WORLDS) hit the shelves today. Yay! I’m celebrating with some flourless orange cake. But… um… I was most of the way through my slice before I realised that I had forgotten to take a photo for this blog post. Whoops!

April 11, 2018

Bookshop Workshop

Appearances, books, bookstores, Otherworlds, Writing, You Choose series

Today I ran a two-hour intensive writing workshop for kids aged seven and up, at Eltham Bookshop. It was all about structure and planning. Several of the participants were interested in using the group planning activities as a basis for their own writing, so I promised to put photos of the whiteboard plans up on […]

March 26, 2018

Beast World book trailer

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The BEAST WORLD trailer has been released. So exciting!

March 13, 2018

Perfect World book trailer

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LOOK! Perfect World has a trailer…

February 26, 2018

The Doorway Opens

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Today, the doorway opens on OTHER WORLDS with the publication of books one and two – Perfect World and Beast World. This new series of sci-fi/fantasy/adventure books, aimed at kids aged 8 and up, is officially launched today! I celebrated Publication Day this morning with a fancy cheesecake. 🙂 I am so excited about this […]

November 15, 2017

The massive OTHER WORDS reveal

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The time has come to unveil my new OTHER WORLDS book series. This is where I get to tell you a little about it and also show you the first two covers – illustrated by the always awesome James Hart (who also does the covers for my You Choose series) and designed by Tony Palmer. […]

November 3, 2017

OTHER WORLDS teaser

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Not long now before I can reveal the covers for the first two books in my new OTHER WORLDS series, along with some info. Until then, here’s a bit of a teaser.

March 15, 2017

New Projects for 2017

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I often joke that my mind is as cluttered as my desktop, which is why I’m rarely able to concentrate on just one project at a time – too much stuff churning around the abyss within my head, clamoring for attention. Unless I have a really short deadline that forces me to concentrate on just […]