Students and staff at the Mater Maria in Warriewood. The school recently hosted a Kid’s Literature Day, attended by authors Laurine Croasdale, Wendy Blaxland, Wendy Fitzgerald, Felicity Pulman, Kathy Buchanan, Belinda Murrell, Kate Forsyth, Oliver Phommavanh, Jeni Mawter, Jenny Hale and myself. And an enormous thank you to Laurine Croasdale, who launched Saltwater Vampires on the day. She is a top chick.
Will be in all good bookstores on 1 September, 2010. …But in the meantime, you can read an extract. …And there’s a hearty extras section now available. It includes prequel …chapters to the story, which are set on the Batavia. …If you’d like to learn more about the Batavia that’s covered too, along …with sources of further information. …And coming soon, a few
Natalie Hatch from We Love YA has done a round up of what’s happening in the world of book trailers and included the one for Saltwater Vampires. As has Judith Ridge on her blog, Misrule. Judith’s seeking ‘how-to’ info on what makes a good trailer, so if you’d like to share take the trip over. And Carly (from Raw Blue) made the list
What a fantastic festival. I just wanted to hang out and listen to the other authors and illustrators all day long, but that said, I had a great time talking about Raw Blue and Saltwater Vampires, and doing a couple of workshops. Muchas gracias to everybody who came to listen/question/write! The University of the Sunshine Coast was such a good venue, and it
Happy days! I scored an invite to the Voices on the Coast Youth Literature Festival (big thank you to the very nice Kelly Dunham, festival organiser). I’ll be doing a talk about Raw Blue and a couple of writing workshops. The festival runs from 7 – 12 June and tickets go on sale 12 April. More details when they arrive via the details
Raw Blue made the Australian Book Review’s feature on the best books of 2009 – critics’ choice, which was a really nice surprise and a great way to end the year. Mike Shuttleworth of the Victorian Centre for Youth Literature said: “Kirsty Eagar’s fearless Raw Blue (Penguin), a story of regeneration set on Sydney’s northern beaches, is more than just a promising debut:
Pip Newling at Readings, Port Melbourne, has said some nice things about Raw Blue: “Raw Blue is a debut novel by Sydney-based writer Kirsty Eagar and while it has been sold into the Young Adult market it easily crosses over into adult territory. It’s a gutsy and nuanced story of Carly, surfer by day and cook by night, who is trying to find
Recently I did an interview with Natalie Hatch over at www.weloveya.wordpress.com talking about Raw Blue. You can check it out here. Bit slow in posting this – we’ve been away to Nelson Bay, crammed into a house with good friends and their beautiful kids. Fantastic times – lots of surfing, seafood and Halloween. Birubi was absolutely enormous, and One Mile Beach was summer
The last part of Oliver Phommavanh’s insights on stand up comedy… He teaches, he writes, he makes us laugh..and he’s got this thing for carebears – I forgot to ask him about that… Do you practice your delivery in front of the mirror/friends/your cat/dog? I don’t rehearse it like a performance, though I do like to write out every joke and cram every
More from Oliver Phommavanh on how he writes stand up comedy routines, so lean forward and smile… How does writing for stand up differ from writing comedy in fiction? When you’re writing just for laughs, all that matters is the set up and the punch-line. Whether the set up is a sentence or a paragraph, you’re leading up to a laugh. Writing comedy
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