This is the invitation to the Dragon Companion Launch in Melbourne on 21st Oct. I’m hoping lots of people will come and help me and Dean Jones (the illustrator) celebrate the publication of this book. Click on the image to read the small print. If you want to find out about the book look here and … Continued
There will be a book launch for The Dragon Companion in Melbourne. All welcome. I hope some of you will come along and say hello and help me celebrate the publication of this book which I have been working on for a long time. Here are the details. When: Sun 21 Oct 3 pm Where: … Continued
The Dragon Companion should be in bookshops (in Australia) next week (1st October). It is an A-Z encyclopedia of dragons. black dog books has set up a terrific microsite for the Companion. It has some of the illustrations from the book. Here’s another one. There are extracts from the book as well. The extracts are … Continued
The publishers who publish the Dragonkeeper series in other countries don’t always let me know when the books will be available. So I am grateful when overseas readers let me know. Tamina tells me Dragon Moon will be out in Germany in February 2008, and Ryanne has let me know that it will be out … Continued
Sarah wanted to know how I managed to collect up 17 folders of information on dragons for my new book The Dragon Companion: An Encyclopedia (see post More Dragons on the Horizon.) Well it took a long time. I started reading general books on dragons. They led me to more specific dragon information, in books … Continued
I’ve added a page of Frequently Asked Questions to this website. See FAQs in the menu. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to answer readers’ questions, it’s just that when I answer a comment on this blog, I do it off the top of my head and sometimes (particularly with the writers’ tips) I forget … Continued
It is now only three weeks till my next book comes out. It’s called The Dragon Companion: an Encyclopedia. I am very proud of it. It is a beautiful hardback book with fabulous illustrations by Dean Jones. Here is the cover. (Click on the image to see a larger version.) It isn’t something I’ve whipped … Continued
Someone just sent me a picture of the UK Dragon Moon cover. (Thanks, Ryan.) Here it is. It’s lovely isn’t it? It’s always exciting to see new covers. It’s the one part of the production of a novel that the author has little to do with…and in the case of overseas covers, nothing to do … Continued
I have a short story in a new collection called Top Stories 1 published by Heinemann. There are great stories by Australian writers such as Isobelle Carmody, Margo Lanagan and Garth Nix. I feel privileged to be alongside such famous authors! Australian students might find it in their school library.
I haven’t done a post about my dog Rita for a while. She’s about 18 months old now and very smart. Her favourite thing in the whole world is her ball. She is obsessed with it. She wants us to throw if for her all day long. While I’m at the computer I have to … Continued