lovely Leonard Cohen. There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.  

These are some egg noggins that you can buy at Curious Grace, a lovely store around the corner from my house. This could be a picture of my dad. He looks exactly like the blue-hatted noggin on the right.     They’re by Tanya Edlington. If you click on the link you’ll see some lovely [...]

Last Monday I had the great pleasure of launching Leanne Hall’s new book, Queen of the Night. It’s divine. You should read it. It’s the sequel to This is Shyness so treat yourself and read that first. I thought I’d post the launch speech. It’s a long blog post but I adored this book and [...]

My first secret tiny stories are coming and they’re so good. I’ve also got one secret story picture. Secret stories one     two Lucy found the photo, and looked at her mum’s breasts for the first time.   three It’s time.   four She looked at the sun like it had told her a [...]

The box of secret tiny stories   I got a box of tiny secret stories this week. And some glass trapped words.   The very talented students at Killester College in Springvale filled a box with tiny bits of stories. I’ve been reading them all day. Tiny stories in a box is the best present [...]

  I’ve taken so long to post the winners because I couldn’t pick them. The lines are all so beautiful. It seems wrong to choose two above the others but I had to and so I did.   So - congratulations Iffath for your whole poem – I adored it.   She loves the feeling of being [...]

  I’d love it if you would join me in a free  live chat with TheReadingRoom.com on Tuesday 28th 7pm US time or Wednesday 29th at 11am Australian time. Click here:http://www.thereadingroom.com/book-club/the-bookanistas/1435       We could chat about all kinds of things. Art, poetry, the writing process, your story idea, cake, dialogue, how hard it is [...]

  Such great things to love. I’ll add the others that come in and announce the winner on the 22nd. It will be hard to choose. They are all so good. I’ve clipped a few in half and spread them through. And there were one or two that weren’t phrased to fit so I’ve clipped [...]

Well, the lines that are coming in are lovely, lovely.   Not too late to send your line to be in the running for a FREE copy of Graffiti moon and to be part of a very beautiful poem thingy about the loves of people all over the world.   Oh, and if you’re in [...]

            I came home last night to find my copies of Graffiti moon on the doorstep. Lovely. BIG thanks to my editor. Big thanks to Melina Marchetta and Jenny Downham who read the book and wrote beautiful comments for the cover. Jenny wrote a fantastic piece on character for the Amazon Omnivoracious blog. It’s out in [...]