Voices
I’ve been having trouble with voice and perspective recently. My YA novel, Girl, Aloud (Girl Out Loud in the USA) is written in first-person present tense, which gets a lot of schtick from certain quarters. I didn’t think about the…
Big Day Out
The Children’s Book Festival, put on by the Wheeler Centre, was held today on the lawns of the beautiful State Library. My daughter Maddy and I dragged the boys along, ignoring my partner’s attempted get-out clause – “I’m still a…
Imagination at Full Speed
I wouldn’t be the first writer to have been asked: “When are you going to write some proper books? Like, for adults?” Any children’s / YA writer reading this is now nodding vigorously and the room is shaking with…
Girl Out Loud, Scholastic June 2012
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