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Ian Irvine’s on my kids’ blog tomorrow: ‘The 10 Best Things about Writing GRIM AND GRIMMER’.
To help celebrate IAN IRVINE’s new Grim and Grimmer release, the fourth book in the series, The Calamitous Queen, this hugely popular author will be a guest on my SherylGwyther4Kids Blog on the 16th June 2011.
Ian is the author of 27 novels, including the international best-selling 11-book fantasy…
Added by Sheryl Gwyther on June 15, 2011
Animals in picture books have been hooking kids into reading for years.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using animal characters in picture books?
Added by Renee Taprell on June 10, 2011
Added by Helen Ross on June 6, 2011
Helen Ross writes – interview with Karen Robertson
Added by Helen Ross on May 29, 2011
Space Footy and Other Stories
This is the cover of my latest collection of short stories for young readers. It is the ‘brother’ to ‘My Horrible Couins and other Stories’…
Added by Goldie Alexander on May 27, 2011
Added by Helen Ross on May 22, 2011
welcome to my blog
My weekly blog about things to do with writing and reading is posted on www.goldiealexander.com/blog
I would love folk to read and send me comments. It can also be easily reached by entering the W on my website www.goldiealexander.com
Added by Goldie Alexander on May 14, 2011
THE UP-SIDE OF BEING A CHILDREN’S AUTHOR
Everybody knows about the downside of being a writer – getting nowhere fast, pushing jelly uphill or was that molassas?
Enough rejection letters to fill a couple of folders, multi-rewrites of many stories filling up the spare spaces in your computer, an ever-increasing pile of washing tottering in the laundry, days when you leave the phone on messages and your family and ‘normal’ friends think you’re out of town – when you’re actually huddled over a hot…
Added by Sheryl Gwyther on May 2, 2011
The opinionated review.
If you are, or were thinking of reviewing how much of your review would be your opinion?
I know many reviewers do tend to be rather opinionated which is fine, after all I am sure others do agree and that is what reviewing is all about, isn’t it? On the other hand are we trying to promote a product? Are we trying to inform the public about said product? or are we merely trying to demonstrate our writing ability by writing about someone elses writing? How much does our…
Added by Iread alot on March 2, 2011
I don’t think it is an overstatement to say there are literally hundreds of literacy/book industry related bloggers, websites, organisations, groups, services and businesses in Australia and New Zealand. However it can be hard to find the right ones for you, or the information you are looking for. With so many websites in the tangled world wide web, wonderful resources can be hard to find, and for businesses it can be hard to reach your…
Added by Bug in a Book on January 18, 2011
