My new book Dragon Dawn will be launched here in Melbourne next week. Everyone is welcome to come along and help me celebrate. I hope to see some of you there. 6.30pm on Thursday 9 October at Reader’s Feast Bookstore Melbourne Midtown Plaza cnr Bourke and Swanston Plaza
I will be in Brisbane next Wednesday taking a writers’ workshop at the Queensland Writers Centre. It will be an all-day Young Writers’ Masterclass for students from Grades 10 — 12. I will be helping young writers learn how to get ideas and build stories. It costs $70 and there are still a few places … Continued
I am going to New Zealand tomorrow which is very exciting. I am a guest of the Storylines Festival. I will be speaking at three free Family Days during the festival. Free Family Days Wellington Free Family Day – 8 June Te Whaea, Newtown Christchurch Free Family Day – 14 June Heaton Intermediate Auckland Free … Continued
I will be visiting Sydney next month as a guest of the Sydney Writer’s Festival. I’ll be doing two school sessions on a panel with Terry Denton, Richard Glover, Doug MacLeod, Emily Rodda and Deborah Abela. But those sessions have both sold out. I will also be doing a session which is open to the … Continued
If you live in Melbourne, and you don’t have anything to do next Sunday, there will be a launch for Dragon Moon on Sunday 29 April at 3pm. It will be at the Chinese Museum, 22 Cohen Place in the City (it runs off Little Bourke St). Everyone is welcome to come and help me … Continued
Another whirlwind trip, this time to Adelaide. The Dragon Moon event at Dymocks Rundle Mall went well. Thanks to Marion and the staff for organising it. Here I am with Marion of Dymocks and with a reader. I visited three schools—St Peters Woodlands, Pedare College and Seaview High. I also found the time to look … Continued
I visited eight schools while I was in Sydney—Mount St Benedicts, Cheltenham Girls, Pymble Ladies College, Abbotsleigh Girls, Chatswood PS, Roseville College, Our Lady of Dolours and Lindfield PS. I met lots of kids who had read the first Dragonkeeper books, and lots who I hope I encouraged to give them a try. The students … Continued
I am back home after a hectic visit to Sydney where I gave 11 talks in four days! There was an evening event at the Beecroft Children’s Bookshop which was a full house with kids and adults attending. Owner Paul Macdonald and his staff had created a lovely Dragon Moon window display and local people … Continued
Dragon Moon is in the shops now! (In Australia) And I am going on a little tour to celebrate. I will be in Sydney first. Monday 2 April at the Children’s Bookshop in Beecroft at 6.30pm. Click here to see the information about this free event on their website. The following week I will be … Continued
Today we had the first event to launch Dragon Moon. It was held at Ruyton Girls School and there were students from Genazzano College and Trinity Grammar as well. Everyone was put in the proper mood by Shen Peng who played the ancient Chinese instrument called the erhu. He played beautiful music, all achieved with … Continued