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Hello readers,
I would like to apologise for the delay of this issue as I was unwell last week, and so there will be two issues this week. So just a brief catch up today and thank you for your patience.
Please don’t forget to read our last edition about how you can contribute to our up coming eMagazine which is due to arrive on the 25th of January. Blue Dingo is about promoting you so if you would like to share anything about your writing or illustrating, a promotion or event please get in touch. This is free to promotional members and for non-members or free members the rates are very cheap. Click here for more details.
For a little look at our emagazine formatting visit our most recent edition of Bug in a Book news. Bug in a Book is our children’s literacy organisation and we welcome your relevant news here also.
Please note that over the Christmas and New Years break we will be out of our offices and taking a holiday. I hope you are all able to enjoy some quality family time also during this period.
Now back to you folks.
Special Event:
Help Save a Tassie Devil This Christmas
Auction Status
Status: OPEN [http://www.kategordon.com.au/devil-auction/]
Closing date/time: Thursday 15th December, 12pm AEDT – So Hurry!
Winners notified: Friday 16th December, 12pm AEDT
Kate Gordon joined forces with Christina Booth to put together five wonderful auction items for you to bid on and help save the Tassie Devil. They are:
- A signed copy of Thyla
- A signed copy of the very first hot-off-the-press Vulpi (the sequel to Thyla) – read it before anyone else does!
- A signed very rare hardback copy of Christina Booth’s acclaimed picture book, Potato Music
- A manuscript assessment of the first thirty pages of a Young Adult Novel, compiled by me!
- And the most wonderful prize of all, an original illustration from Christina’s beautiful Tasmanian Devil book, Purinina.
Please have a look at the detailed blurbs for these items and start bidding in the comments! It’s easy. Just post in the comments how much you’d like to bid. The highest bidder at the close of the auction wins the item! For more information on how to bid and donate, see the “How to Bid” page! Help me raise much-needed funds for Tasmania’s beloved devils, and score yourself – or a loved one – a fantastic Chrissie present to boot!
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Blue Dingo News:
30 Picture book ideas in 30 days
PiBoldMo (Picture Book Idea Month) was a lot of fun, and ‘Eureke!” I surpassed my goal of reaching 30 ideas in 30 days.
For each day during PiBoldMo a guest blogger shared pearls of wisdom. I recommend that you make a pot of tea or coffee, and spend time reading these posts - each one offers pearls of wisdom for the children’s picture book writer.
My full post at:: http://misshelenwrites.wordpress.com
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Take a break from novel writing and venture into short fiction
After spending November writing a novel (or at least 50,000 words of a novel) you may be feeling it’s time to have a bit of a break, I know that’s how I’m feeling. I’ve set my novel aside until January. But maybe you are still feeling the itch to write, you’re just looking for something not quite as huge as a novel. I like to dabble short story writing and this year have had three of my short stories published in anthologies. Short stories are a great way to get down those plot bunnies running rampant in your head that you know will never be developed into longer novel length stories (or maybe they will–my NaNo story this year started as a short story idea).
Today I have a very timely guest post on my blog from Nadia Jones on the benefits of short story writing. You can read it here:
http://thegracefuldoe.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/take-a-break-from-no…
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Nerrilee Weir
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