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
I had an enquiry recently about how the names in my Ramose series should be pronounced. Amanda from black dog books thought it would be good to have a pronunciation guide like the one at the back of Dragonkeeper. It’s not as easy as that though. No one knows what the language of the ancient … Continued
A while back Jenny emailed me asking how I imagined the dragons in my Dragonkeeper books would look. I told her that I had been inspired by a Han dynasty painting of a dragon. I thought other readers might be interested to see it. It is quite different to the usual images of Chinese dragons … Continued
New artwork from Moreton Bay College in Queensland has been added to the art page.