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Richard Harland talks about his latest release, the mesmerising Worldshaker… I loved writing Worldshaker—I think steampunk/Victoriana is the kind of fiction I was born to create! I suppose I’ve been heading towards this all through my previous fourteen books, and it’s certainly turning out my most successful book yet. It’s just added a UK contract [...]

Interpersed with musical selections of his choice, Christos Tsiolkas talks to Matt Levinson about the wide variety of musical influences on his writing. From the Jackson Five to Scott Walker, New Order to Tsitsanis Vasilis, he engagingly discusses the way music has affected his thinking and creativity and how it has been translated into his writing.

Interpersed with musical selections of his choice, Christos Tsiolkas talks to Matt Levinson about the wide variety of musical influences on his writing. From the Jackson Five to Scott Walker, New Order to Tsitsanis Vasilis, he engagingly discusses the way music has affected his thinking and creativity and how it has been translated into his writing.

Pamela Wilson has an interview with Sonya Hartnett up on her blog that really makes for great reading. See below the excerpt for the link. “My loyalty is to the book. Not to the reader, not to the librarian, not to the teacher, not even to me,” she says unapologetically. “If the story wants a theme [...]

Steph Bowe, blogger extraordinaire returns to give her teenage perspective on two of the hottest new releases for kids. For more of her musings, click here. The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks Nina has been fifteen since 1973, when she was infected by a rogue vampire, but instead of the glamorous, superhuman life [...]

I’m glad for books like Michael Cathcart’s The Water Dreamers. In recent years, history has been reinvigorated by taking new slants on old narratives.

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to be a speaker at the NSW Writers’ Centre’s 4th Annual Kids and YA Festival, able to rub shoulders and exchange quips with authors infinitely more famous than I. With all the events leading up to the main Saturday, I was bumping into authors at a frequency I’m not quite used to. [...]

The Water Dreamers: How Water and Silence Shaped Australia Michael Cathcart explores the historical path water has followed and what it has meant for Australia. He spoke to Shane Strange.

James Roy has more awards under his belt than you can count. Ben Beaton asks him about Edsel Grizzler: Voyage to Verdada, the first book in a new three-part series.

As an author, I’m extremely interested in seeing how publishers use the Internet to promote books for children (and obviously, I’m making notes on what works and what doesn’t). Lots of publishers have tried to tackle Youtube trailers, and honestly, a lot of them involve a swirling book cover and a really horrible voiceover. After [...]

Another month, another giveaway. July’s is Ashes-tinged and filled to the brim for cricket fans and avid readers alike, so be sure to register HERE for your chance to win copies of: Cricket Kings by William McInnes  SIGNED Step into the lives of a team of regular middle-aged men who meet each week to play [...]