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READ WRITE INSPIRE. Welcome to my Words, a place devoted to making Reading and Writing for children more Inspired.


Flotsam and Jetsam

Look around here for odds and ends about me, miscellaneous musings, pictures that say a thousand words and any thing else newsy enough to make Reading and Writing more Inspired.

LATEST NEWS...

Proud new member of SCBWI - Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Look forward to meeting and conversing with even more talented people from within this awesome industry.

Thrilled to announce that I will be Creative Kids Tales Featured Emerging Author for the month of September. Check out this fabulous little hub of children's authors and illustrators. Take your time and read a few of my stories...

In many ways I am still an emerging butterfly about to launch herself from her chrysalis into the unknown. Watch my flight from Creative Kids Tales, a fabulous site dedicated to new writers writing for children.

I did it. Finally. Won my first full publishing contract with Morris Publishing Australia. Whoo Hoos all round. Relishing the first time feeling. Slightly daunted by the task ahead to bring this baby home. Hope to have 'PS What About Christmas?' all wrapped up by Christmas...

Check out my first Author Interview with exciting new kids author, Charmaine Clancy. Her new novel 'My Zombie Dog'  was let off the leash March 2012. Read my Review of My Zombie Dog. It'll cause you're skin to tingle and toes to curl.

Read all about my EXCITING NEW VENTURE on My Monster page. Sharing the joy of reading through sensational story telling will be one of my main aims over the next few months.

A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS

  • Reading ~ it's why I write
  • Cooking ~ because I can't paint
  • Eating what I cook ~ live to eat kind of girl
  • Eating what others cook
  • Getting mucky in the garden
  • Sailing on the beam and being in the groove
  • Brown paper packages with or without string
  • Anything green
  • Crisp autumn days and the smell of spring
  • My daughter's smile

I LIKE BEING PART OF...