My plan for 2021? No more conferences. No more pitching sessions. Just write. Get the writing right. Get a mentor. Focus, don’t flit. And then, wouldn’t you know it, the team behind KidLitVic had a great idea. They ran the conference online and so cheap it was almost criminal not …
So here’s a thing I do all the time. You know how picture books are spread over 32 pages? And how you often need to supply your manuscripts with those page spreads shown (and then sometimes you don’t, but that’s the joy of submitting your work right?). I start with …
You guys. I wrote on the couch this week. With the heater on, and the hot water bottle stuffed up my top. The words have not been flowing. I’m trying to switch back to being a morning person (hence the 11.08pm blog post. grrrr), so I’ve been getting up early, …
Up high Most mornings, on the way home from my morning run, I run past a man I don’t know. He’s smoking on the footpath on the main road that runs through our burb. He sees me coming (slowly). I see that he sees me (little inward grin and I …
