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The New Year's Eve Edition

Write around your life

My Year-Changing Books

The November/December Nutshell

5 Mistakes I've Made As a Writer #5

Two Children, Two Reading Journeys

Kid Lit 4 Climate Action

Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High

5 Mistakes I've Made As A Writer #4

The Midnight Kittens by Dodie Smith

#1 Young Adult Reading Notes

The October Nutshell

What Did They Do To Deserve That?

Minis #3: The Conundrums of Naming Characters

5 Mistakes I've Made As A Writer #3

Psst! I've released the ghosts

The September Nutshell

Why I (Really) Started This Newsletter

Bewitched by Boarding School Fiction

Minis #2: Writer's Block in Disguise

The August Nutshell

An Account of Book Week Nerves

Mrs Pepperpot by Alf Prøysen

Letters Home, with Jessica Miller

Minis #1: When What You Don't Say Matters

The July Nutshell

Where’ve You Been All My life?

How To Make Plot Decisions

Bibliophiles R Us

Pressing pause on this newsletter

The Long-Haul Flight Edition

The May Nutshell

Freedom, nostalgia & identity: the Penelope Farmer children's book trilogy

#3 Children's Book Reading Notes

Quick Notes on the Melbourne Writers Festival #2

Quick notes on the Melbourne Writers Festival #1

The April Nutshell

How to use a door in fiction

Join me on Notes

An Honest Day’s Work

35 published novels later, here's my "debut"

#2 Children's Book Reading Notes

The March Nutshell

The Truth About Manuscript Assessments

Children's timeslip novels by Australian authors

Lately on the Voracious podcast

Writing: a lonely business?

In Praise of Small Things, Like These

5 Mistakes I’ve Made as a Writer: #2

The February Nutshell

Two rabbit-holes I fell into while reading Lessons by Ian McEwan

Lately on the Voracious podcast

A Matter of Time: audio version

A Matter of Time

Come Write With Me

To Sir, With Gratitude

The January Nutshell

#1 Children's Book Reading Notes

In conversation with Nina Kenwood

Coming up on the Voracious podcast

Books For New Beginnings

How To Revive A Dead Manuscript

Story Time for Writers

Coming soon...

5 Mistakes I’ve Made As A Writer: #1

Scary stories as a vaccine for younger readers