Night Beach is out today!

Remember how I said I was going to blog more about the book? Well, I’m going to cheat instead. Alpha Reader has just posted an interview I did with her, which includes a lot of the paintings mentioned in the story, and she’s done a much better job than I’ll ever do. So if you’d like to read it, please click here (and

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Reptar

These guys’ music makes me want to write. Love, love, love them. If you’re a pop whore like me, you will, too. I read them described as hipsters somewhere, but if you look at this photo from their Facebook page you just know that label doesn’t do them justice: Every time I come here I remember I was going to blog a bit

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Wordage shout outs!

First, a shout out to Geelong. Yes, the whole city. But in particular – all of the students who attended the panel sessions with Doug MacLeod, Gab Williams and me. And two extra special shout outs for the students from Oberon High – who survived a mouse; and the girls and boys from Mandarma Primary School – who have the brightest eyes I have ever seen.

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Sydney Writers’ Festival

I’ll be there! Speaking! Eruditely! With Margo Lanagan and Lucy Christopher and Hilary Rogers. The session is called Her Dark Materials (sexy title, hey what?), it’s on Sunday the 20th May at the Bangarra Theatre from 11.30am to 12.30pm. For more details, click here. Thus endeth the upcoming events posts. ____________________________________ PS This has a weird life-revisiting-itself feel, because 3 years ago I

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Taree

Actually, while I’m going on upcoming events, I should also say that thanks to the wonderful people at Taree Library and the lovely Nicky from Manning Valley Books, I’ll be up in Taree on the 8th of May, to talk about Night Beach. I love that part of the world, and I’ve got a couple of mates lined up to surf Saltwater with me,

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Geelong

Okay, having sat on the details of Geelong’s Wordage festival for two weeks, it’s finally occurred to me I should share them. Me and Doug Macleod and Gab Williams will be there next week – 18th and 19th of April. The festival is being presented by the Geelong Regional Library and the Centre for Youth Literature. The festival is mainly aimed at students

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Boys like you

Loving this at the moment. It is the ONLY thing that has made me stay at my desk in the face of a LOOMING deadline. How addictive is Gossling’s voice?  

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