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Day 7 of my blog tour

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Today’s blog is hosted by Bookmunchie. I am talking about a day in the life of…me! Check it out!    

Day 6 of my blog tour

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Today’s blog is hosted by My Best Friends Are Books which is a New Zealand blog. I’m talking about some of the characters in the  series.

Day 5 of my Blog Tour

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Today my blog tour piece is about reading my stories aloud and what age is too young. An interesting topic suggested by my host at thirteenredshoes.  

Day 4 of my Blog Tour

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My blog tour continues. Today it’s on my publishers blog Walk-a-Book. I talk about my evolution from reader to writer.

Day 3 of my Blog Tour

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Today’s episode of my blog tour is hosted by Megan Burke at Literary Life. I talk about why I chose to write about dragons. There is another book to win as well, so check it out!

My Blog Tour Begins!

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Today is the first day of my Blood Brothers blog tour. For those of you not familiar with blog tours (I wasn’t), this is where someone (me) does a guest blog on a different blog for a week or so. I’m looking forward to it. There are give-aways too. You can win copies of the … Continued

Seal Ink

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Following my blog about my Chinese seal yesterday, I am now going to talk about the other half of the story which is the special red ink that is used with Chinese seals. Seal ink is nothing like ink for fountain pens or fine liners. It is a thick paste made up of cinnabar (or … Continued

My Chinese Seal

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Ages ago a reader named Jane asked me what the red dragon image in the top lefthand corner of my website meant, and I have been meaning to blog about it ever since. When the original cover for Dragonkeeper was being designed, I suggested that an impression of Ping’s imperial dragonkeeper seal be part of … Continued

Sydney and Perth

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Last week I was in Sydney, where I met the good people from Walker Books. I had a free afternoon and I could have gone to the Picasso exhibition, but…I went to the Harry Potter exhibition instead (which was great, loved seeing all the robes and wands).Then I went to the Perth Writers Festival, where … Continued

Flash Back

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  One of my projects over the holidays was to scan some of the slides that we took in the 70s and 80s. I don’t know why everyone thought it was a good idea to take slides instead of photos. It means that you never look at them. Anyway it took quite a while, even … Continued