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April 28 2012
If anyone would like to try a Ford Street e-book, there's a special on at Baen Books: http://www.baenebooks.com/m-12-ford-street-publishing.aspx. As they used to say in the ads, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
In the Beech Forest hits The Compulsive Reader: http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/modules.php?name=News&;file=article&sid=3062
Writing fantasy 101. First, you need a map. The rest Paul Collins explains at Michael Pryor's blog: http://www.michaelpryor.com.au/?p=3028
George Ivanoff blogs about speaking and Creative Net: http://georgeivanoff.com.au/2012/03/27/creative-speaking/
For those of you who know children's author Michael Wagner, his band, The Grownups, has a new atmospheric song out called Beautiful Rain. Download it at: http://vibedeck.com/thegrownups--2
Foz Meadows, author of Solace and Grief and The Key to Starveldt, explains to Lisa Lisa L Hannett 'What Happens Next": http://lisahannett.com/tag/ford-street-publishing/
#NYR12 Kids love posters and what better poster than one comprising 57 of Australia's leading authors, illustrators and poets? Go here for a free e-poster: http://tinyurl.com/6vgd2d9
Tania McCartney (author of Riley and the Grumpy Wombat) and Jack Heath will be the week 11 featured ambassadors on the NYR12 website. Tania's entry will go live this morning: http://love2read.org.au/featured-ambassador-week11-tania.cfm.
Angela Hall reviews In the Beech Forest by Gary Crew and Den Scheer: http://bugreviews.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/in-the-beech-forest/
Paul Collins's essay, 'Stealing Fire From the Gods' (on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson) is up at http://smartpopbooks.com/. Another link is at: http://www.smartpopbooks.com/stealing-fire-from-the-gods/. The book the essay appeared in, Demigods and Monsters, has become quite an International best-seller for BenBella Books.
February 19 2012
Jackie French gives Tania McCartney’s Riley and the Grumpy Wombat a great review: http://www.hercanberra.com.au/index.php/2012/02/13/jackie-loves-riley/
Dee wrote: "As part of the National Year of Reading 2012, we're profiling the publishers - the people who put the books together. Today's profiled publisher at Kids' Book Capers is Ford Street Publishing. Paul Collins talks about what's happening at Ford Street in 2012. http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/kids-book-capers-blog/?p=3805
The Chronos Awards are now open for nominations. Eligible Ford Street titles are Changing Yesterday/Sean McMullen, The Key to Starveldt/Foz Meadows, Mole Hunt/Paul Collins and in short fiction Gamers Challenge/George Ivanoff. Also in Best Achievement/Henry Gibbens for trailers to Mole Hunt and Gamers’ Challenge. Nominations are free, but there’s a $5 fee to actually vote if you’re not a member of the Convention: http://continuum.org.au/2012-chronos-awards-nominations-now-open/
February 10 2012
CARPET COURT LAUNCHES STORYBOOK CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOLS
Creative Net is pleased to announce a great new initiative it is supporting, launched by Carpet Court this month. Carpet Court’s Storybook Challenge is an inspiring new competition being run across participating stores to encourage more shared reading in classrooms across Australia and provide schools with fun educational tools. Creative Net is assisting by providing local authors to visit participating schools.
The Carpet Court Storybook Challenge is open now and giving primary schools located near participating Carpet Court stores the chance to win $1,000 in books and colourful reading mats for their classroom as well as individual book prizes.
Carpet Court’s National Marketing Manager, Natasha Gallardo, said the aim of launching the Storybook Challenge and partnering with CCN was to encourage children to get excited about reading and writing and develop wider learning and literacy skills.
“Encouraging a love of reading at a young age can dramatically improve a child’s confidence and ability to excel later in life. We hope that by providing sponsorship and support, we might make a difference to the next generation of Australians,” she said
From 1 February to 30 March the Carpet Court Storybook Challenge will be open to children from grades one to four at eligible schools in Victoria, WA, SA and Tasmania. Other states will get their chance to shine in terms two and three.
To enter, students must describe what they love most about their local community and provide an illustration. Kids can pick up an entry form for the Storybook Challenge from their local participating primary school, download one from www.facebook.com/CarpetCourt or email storybook@carpetcourt.com.au.
Eligible entries will be displayed on www.facebook.com/CarpetCourt where you can vote for your favourite to help pick the top five finalists for each state region.
Finalists will be judged by a panel at Carpet Court, including a successful children’s author, with winners for each participating store announced in April.
The Storybook Challenge is part of a wider community initiative called the Carpet Court Learning Network aimed at fostering literacy skills amongs Australia’s youth. Under this initiative, 2012 will see Carpet Court sponsor the Children’s Charity Network in support of their Young Australian Writing & Art Awards and book giving program Carpet Court Book Drop for Kids, while also running the Carpet Court Storybook Challenge and Carpet Court Flooring Grants program.
January 16, 2012
The Great Raven takes a liking to George Ivanoff's Gamers' Challenge: http://suebursztynski.blogspot.com/2011/12/gamers-challenge-by-george-ivanoff.html
Ships in the Field, an immigration experience, gets a great review at Sue Bursztynski's blogspot: http://suebursztynski.blogspot.com/2011/12/ships-in-field-by-susanne-gervay.html
December 26, 2011
Tania McCartney’s Riley and the Grumpy Wombat reviewed in Early Years: http://taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2011/12/grumpy-wombat-review-in-early-years.html. Tania is yet another Ford Street author to become an ambassador for the National Year of Reading: http://taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2011/12/national-year-of-reading-ambassador-for.html Congrats, Tania!
George Ivanoff gets interviewed on the Channel 31 program Level The interview is at the 13.30min mark: http://level3.org.au/post/862/
Paul Collins’s book Mole Hunt gets the best of praise on Phil Coss’s 2011 Top 4 books www.burnbright.com.au
1. Crash Deluxe by Marianne de Pierres, 2. Mole Hunt by Paul Collins, 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 4. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein, 5. Dark Time -- Mortal Path by Dakota Banks.
Australia Day ambassador and author of Ships in the Field, Susanne Gervay, interviewed at: http://www.beautyandlace.com.au/bookgirl/author-interview-susanne-gervay/
Sue Bursztynski, author of Crime Time and Wolfborn, gets behind the speakers' agency, Creative Net: http://suebursztynski.blogspot.com/2011/12/ford-street-creative-net.html
Rufus the Numbat makes it to India – in the hands of the NSW Premier!
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article2641645.ece
Author of Ships in the Field, Susanne Gervay, interviewed at The Reading Room: http://www.thereadingroom.com/author-20-questions/susanne-gervay/278649
Author of Solace and Grief and The Key to Starveldt, Foz Meadows, interviewed at: http://patrickoduffy.com/2011/12/12/a-q-and-a-with-foz-meadows/
Paul Collins gives away the recipe to his spinach quiche at Sophie Masson’s blog: http://alamodefrangourou.blogspot.com/2011/12/writers-and-editors-on-food-8-paul.html
Hazel Edwards’ latest newsletter can be viewed at: http://www.hazeledwards.com/n/o/NzIwMDM1LUY2MzJ8NjA1OA==
Ford Street has released its Xmas newsletter: http://www.fordstreetpublishing.com/index.php/about-ford-street/newsletters
George Ivanoff blogs about our latest festival: http://georgeivanoff.com.au/2011/11/30/out-and-about/ and here's a link to the podcast of the interview George did on 3CR's "Published Or Not"... http://podcast.3cr.org.au/pod/3CRCast-2011-12-08-61783.mp3
Hazel Edwards blogs at Paper Tigers: http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/childrens-e-books-interview-with-hazel-edwards/
George Ivanoff discusses writing his Gamers books on Ian Irvine's site: http://ian-irvine.blogspot.com/2011/11/george-ivanoff-on-setting-novels-in.html
Paul Collins has guest-blogged on the structure of fantasy at the Tasmanian CBCA’s site: http://tinyurl.com/c4d5k82
Here's part #2 of Paul's blog -- Writing Fantasy 101 -- for the Tasmanian branch of the CBCA: http://cbcatas.blogspot.com/2011/11/writing-fantasy-101-by-paul-collins_22.html. There's also a link to part #1.
All those authors Out There who want a good tip on promoting your books, take an excellent tip from Tania McCartney, author of the new Riley and the Grumpy Wombat: http://rileyaviator.blogspot.com/2011/11/grumpy-wombat-activity-book.html
Tania McCartney, author of Riley and the Grumpy Wombat, interviewed at The Australian Literature Review: http://www.authorscompare.net/2011/09/tania-mccartney-author-interview.html and at http://www.needtoreadthis.com/featureblog.html
Good to see our authors promoting! Foz Meadows, author of The Key to Starveldt: http://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/the-key-to-starveldt-reading/) and for Rowena Cory Daniell's blog (http://ripping-ozzie-reads.com/2011/10/24/revisting-old-ideas-with-foz-meadows/) and a guest piece on Alan Baxter's blog (http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2011/10/21/guest-post-piracy-free-content-foz-meadows.html)
George Ivanoff, author of Gamers' Challenge, interview online at: http://my.blogtalkradio.com/compulsivereader/2011/10/19/interview-with-george-ivanoff and at http://www.authorscompare.net/2011/10/george-ivanoff-author-interview.html. The book’s reviewed at Get Ahead Kids: http://www.getaheadkids.com.au/products/products/Issue17/GamersChallenge.html
All good reviews are welcome, but those written by the kids we write for are especially treasured. This one says Mole Hunt is "... the galaxy's most interesting book". Quotes don't come much better. From the YARR-A site: http://home.iprimus.com.au/sjames1/reviews/r_collins_mole_hunt.html
Very insightful article and review of Hazel Edwards and Ryan Ryan Scott Kennedy's book F2M at: https://narrellemharris.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/f2m-the-boy-within-the-book-that-scared-libraries/
A review of Michael Salmon's Bobo My Superdog has been put up on the ReadPlus blog at http://www.readplus.com.au and can also be found at http://www.readplus.com.au/reviews/reviewsindex.html. It will also appear in the SAETA newsletter.
Sue Bursztynski, author of Crime Time -- Australians behaving badly, blogs at insideadog:
http://www.insideadog.com.au/blog/all
Jackie Kerin gets behind Keeping Books Alive: http://storytellingguildvic.blogspot.com/ and http://jackiekerin.blogspot.com/. Interesting sites by the way!
Susanne Gervay supports Keeping Books Alive -- a great initiative run by Rob Leonard:
http://www.sgervay.com/blog
Ford Street Publishing published the world's first transgender book written by an f2m. People are finally taking notice, due to Ryan and Hazel's persistence. Check out the following: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2011/3356506.htm
October 2 2011
The latest Hazard River books by JE Fison are reviewed at: http://www.needtoreadthis.com/featurecompetition.html
Mole Hunt by Paul Collins is reviewed at: http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2882
George Ivanoff gives some thought to the value of book trailers at: http://bit.ly/qHVLGd
Paul Collins and Molly get together to promote Paul's Mole Hunt:
http://bugreviews.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/the-key-to-starveldt/. and it gets reviewed at Compulsive Reader: http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2887Two interesting sites to read JE Fison’s tips on all things to do with writing Part I: http://deescribewriting.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/tuesday-writing-tip-using-a-journal/, http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/kids-book-capers-blog/tag/j-e-fison andhttp://buginabook.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/julie-fison-hazard-river-ten-tips-for-young-writers/#comment-153. If you like your toads rare, read Toads' Revenge by JE Fison. Read all about it at: http://bugreviews.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/toads-revenge-hazard-river-series-competition/ and Fison’s Blood Money! at http://bugreviews.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/blood-money-hazard-river-series-competition/
Bec Stafford interviews George Ivanoff at the Marrianne de Pierres Burn Bright website: http://bit.ly/nDkBEU. There’s also a giveaway with Boomerang Books: http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/content/giveaways/giveaway-gamers-challenge.shtml and Blood Money! Gets reviewed at: http://www.aussiereviews.com/article3424.html. Gamers' Challenge gets reviewed at girl.com: http://bit.ly/r8Elw5 and read all about it: http://bugreviews.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/gamers-challenge/. It also gets recommended at ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/blog_detail.php?id=2002. Also see his blog there at http://www.readplus.com.au/
For those of you who missed Michael Pryor launch George's book, here's your virtual launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9OFw_JLXE.
Tania McCartney hit Canberra's Panorama on Saturday:
http://taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2011/09/me-and-grumpy-in-panorama-magazine.html and George Ivanoff's Gamers' Challenge received a "Game on" verdict in the Herald-Sun. Good to see the stable working hard :-)
Gamers’ Challenge got reviewed by Dee White at Kids Book Capers: http://tinyurl.com/427jsda
Blogged about it at Boomerang Books: https://bitly.com/q0OtlZ
Blogged about it on my personal blog: http://tinyurl.com/3lhesq6
Kids Book Review for Father’s Day: http://tinyurl.com/3c4ncwt,
The book trailer is now up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQc32qn2_E
Talk about finding a needle in a haystack -- and one I wasn't even looking for! Stumbled across Adele Walsh's YouTube trailer that mentions two Ford Street titles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXNE3luKE4&feature=related
Do main characters need redeeming features? This is the question posed at the end of my interview with Rowena Cory Daniells
http://rowena-cory-daniells.com/2011/09/03/meet-paul-collins The best answer gets a copy of Mole Hunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tTn_WXCiw
Tania McCartney and JE Fison's latest books get the thumbs-up at ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/. Tania's Riley and the Grumpy Wombat is getting its fare share of publicity:
George Ivanoff reviews Sean McMullen's YA steampunk novel Changing Yesterday at http://bit.ly/p6CkhK For those of you interested in time slip SF/and or Australian history, this book is a must.
Here's a current trailer of Paul Collins and wonder heeler, Molly, advertising Mole Hunt, Book #1 of The Maximus Black Files:
Mole Hunt reviewed at January Magazine: http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2011/08/childrens-books-mole-hunt-by-paul.html and review by Pat Pledger at ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/
George Ivanoff, author of Gamers’ Challenge, interviewed by Tristan Bancks at: http://www.tristanbancks.com/2011/08/childrens-author-george-ivanoff-writers.html
Tania McCartney’s characters Riley and the Grumpy Wombat have their own blog site: http://rileyaviator.blogspot.com/
Interested in cheap conversions to e-pub and Kindle? Paul at paul@ekonvurs.com charges 29 cents a page. Cheapest I've found so far.
Kids Book Review also gives Ford Street the thumbs-up: http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/07/news-ford-street-newsletters-creative.html
JE Fison posts on KBR re her Hazard River books: http://tinyurl.com/3fedxow
Riley and the Grumpy Wombat by Tania McCartney and Kieron Pratt hits the airwaves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJqUlSnCNw
Sean McMullen, author of steampunk YA novel, Changing Yesterday, interviewed at Burn Bright: http://www.burnbright.com.au/the-big-4-interview—sean-mcmullen/
and interviewed by Claire Saxby at: http://letshavewords.blogspot.com/
Ford Street has just published its latest newsletter. Please feel free to pass on the URL to whoever might be interested. http://www.fordstreetpublishing.com/index.php/about-ford-street/newsletters
We're offering giveaways, etc. There's also mention of our speakers' agency, Creative Net. We don't charge for this service.
June 17 2011
Mole Hunt by Paul Collins has received some great reviews, and this one at Burn Bright by Bec Stafford matches the best of them: http://www.burnbright.com.au/; competition and interview at: http://www.needtoreadthis.com/featurecompetition.html; a chance to win two copies of Paul’s The Spell of Undoing by Paul Collins at Kids' Book Review: http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/07/win-spell-of-undoing-by-paul-collins.html; Paul gives writing science fiction writing tips on Dee White’s blog at http://wp.me/ppiTq-L6; interviewed by Libraries ACT: http://actpubliclibrary.blogspot.com/2011/07/author-guest-blog-paul-collins.html; Sue Burzstynski reviews Mole Hunt: http://suebursztynski.blogspot.com/.
Hugo Award-nominated Sean McMullen discusses his latest steampunk novel, Changing Yesterday, at Literary Clutter: https://bitly.com/kaVLjv and Beauty and Lace: http://www.beautyandlace.com.au/bookgirl/author-interview-sean-mcmullen/; Sean gets a great rap at ReadPlus for his steampunk novel Changing Yesterday: http://www.readplus.com.au/; and Changing Yesterday also reviewed by Sue Bursztynski at: http://tinyurl.com/44nqhxv.
The sort of author Ford Street loves. George is Out There: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/stay-at-home-dads-battle-for-respect/story-fn6bfmgc-1226093352168
June 2 2011
Bobo, My Superdog by Michael Salmon and Mole Hunt by Paul Collins reviewed at ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/
Paul Collins continues his blog tour and interviews for his dystopian YA novel, Mole Hunt: Dee Scribe: http://tinyurl.com/3hkg3gm, Claire Saxby: http://tinyurl.com/3sogx7j, Brooke Hunter: http://tinyurl.com/5uo4kdy, Susan Stephenson: http://www.thebookchook.com/2011/06/interview-with-paul-collins-author-of.html, Sandy Fussell: http://sandyfussell.blogspot.com/2011/06/author-interview-paul-collins.htm, Chris Cheng: http://chrischengauthor.blogspot.com/, Lorraine Marwood: http://lorrainemarwoodwordsintowriting.blogspot.com/2011/06/paul-collins-at-my-blog-today.html, Trevor Cairney: http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2011/06/meet-author-interview-with-paul-collins.html, Bec Stafford: http://www.burnbright.com.au/contemplating-collins/. Angela Hall at Bug in a Book gives Mole Hunt a great review at: http://tinyurl.com/5tt9vk6. Competition for a copy of Mole Hunt on at needtoreadthis: http://www.needtoreadthis.com/featurecompetition.html
Paul will be signing Mole Hunt at Collins Booksellers Northland (Melbourne) on July 16 between 1 – 2pm. Further info: fordstr@internode.on.net.
Literacy, Family & Learning NEWS. Interesting stuff: http://tinyurl.com/3rbulgl
Mole Hunt Launch
Friday, June 10 · 8:30pm - 9:30pm
Location
Melbourne's Swanston Hotel, Grand Mercure (Ether Conference Centre)
195 Swanston Street, Melbourne. RSVP: Terrie by June 8 fordstr@internode.on.net
JE Fison’s Hazard River books reviewed at: http://www.readplus.com.au/
David Miller’s picture book Rufus the Numbat has been short-listed for the Wilderness Society Award.
Interesting article on webchats, featuring f2m by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Ryan Scott Kennedy: http://tinyurl.com/3l7wrvl
Paul Collins is on the promo trail with a guest blog tour for Mole Hunt: George Ivanoff’s site: http://bit.ly/lEIDAG; Robyn Opie: http://www.robynopie.blogspot.com/; Megan Burke: http://bookworm-megs.blogspot.com/2011/06/guest-post-paul-collins-on-one-books.html; Kids Book Review: http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/06/guest-post-its-mole-hunt-with-paul.html; ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/
Tania McCartney promoting Riley and the Grumpy Wombat: http://taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2011/06/grumpy-wombat-is-on-way.html
30 May 2011
Bat Attack! gets reviewed at hittheroadjacq: http://tinyurl.com/6j63yx7
Paul Collins, author of the YA novel, Mole Hunt, interviewed at: http://www.beautyandlace.com.au/bookgirl/author-interview-paul-collins/
Foz Meadows, author of Solace & Giref, interviewed at The Tribe: http://www.thetribeonline.com/2011/05/foz-meadows-writer-of-solace-and-grief/
The Phantom Paragrapher reviews Mole Hunt by Paul Collins: http://thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com/2011/05/mole-hunt-maximus-black-files-paul.html
The Glasshouse by Paul Collins and Jo Thompson reviewed at: http://www.readplus.com.au/blog_detail.php?id=1747
F2m by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy get a great plug at: http://www.hazeledwards.com/page/f2mthe_boy_within.html
25 April 2011
George Ivanoff interview on Get Cereal: http://bit.ly/gcjLqa
Paul Collins interviewed at: http://www.needtoreadthis.com/featureblog.html
Hazel Edwards interviewed at Who’s Who in Australian women: http://whoswhowomen.com.au/profile/hazel-edwards/
Free teachers resource ebook at http://otherworlds.yolasite.com.
It features a Ford Street title, Paul Collins’s The Spell of Undoing.
Sean McMullen
, author of Before the Storm and the forthcoming sequel, Changing Yesterday, has just been short-listed in the
Hugos for his novelette
"Eight Miles” published
in Analog. For a full list: http://www.renovationsf.org/hugo-intro.php
Paul Collins has been awarded the A Bertram Chandler Award at Swancon 36/Natcon 50. For a full list of Ditmar and other award winners: http://www.sfawardswatch.com/
We’ll be publishing Michael Salmon’s Bobo, my Superdog, in June. Great to see he’s in the news!
A beloved character comes to still life
BY JACQUELINE WILLIAMS
He ate his way through Canberra's landmarks 39 years ago, but now the mischievous monster is back.
Alexander Bunyip, the ravenous fictional character from Michael Salmon's children's book, The Monster that Ate Canberra, first mistook Telstra Tower for an ice cream, the National Library for a giant birthday cake and Parliament House for a pizza in 1972.
The memory of the Bunyip now lives on in Anne Ross's new 500kg bronze sculpture A is for Alexander, B is for Bunyip, C is for Canberra. The 2.2m sculpture, based on the popular children's book character, can be found in front of the new Gungahlin Library.
Salmon said, ''Someone was talking about the public artwork going up around Gungahlin and they said as a joke, why don't we have Alexander Bunyip.''
The $175,000 artwork was commissioned by the ACT Government for Gungahlin's $3.8million town park. It includes miniature versions of the National Library, the Shine Dome and Telstra Tower some of the buildings eaten by the Bunyip throughout The Monster that Ate Canberra.
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, who unveiled the sculpture yesterday, said it highlighted the importance of literacy, imagination and freedom of thought.
When Salmon sat by Lake Burley Griffin as a student in 1970, he envisaged a King Kong-type character munching its way through Canberra's cultural institutions.
''Alexander Bunyip has always been Canberra's bunyip from the moment I conceived him in book form,'' he said.
''To actually see him here almost 40 years later is brilliant.''
Ross has public artwork scattered throughout Australia. A is for Alexander, B is for Bunyip, C is for Canberra started as a simple illustration in Ross's notebook.
It took 10 months to turn the vision into the final sculpture.
''I was a difficult brief for me,'' Ross said. ''I find it quite easy to copy something but I didn't want to do that.''
Ross said the Bunyip sparked the imagination of countless children during the 1970s and 1980s. She hoped her representation of the character would be well received by the Gungahlin community.
''I believe art can make a difference in people's lives,'' she said.
The new version of The Monster that Ate Canberra will be launched at the National Library of Australia next month.
Great review of David Miller’s Big and Me at: http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/03/review-big-and-me.html.
Review of JE Fison’s Bat Attack! at ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/ and http://bugreviews.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/bat-attack/
Congratulations to David Miller (Rufus the Numbat) and Felicity Marshall(The Star) for their Notable Books in the 2011 CBCAs. Also, congrats to Jo Thompson for The Glasshouse (written by Paul Collins) for being short-listed in the Crichton Award. For the full lists see: http://cbca.org.au/default.aspx?contentID=434 http://cbca.org.au/ChrichtonShortlist_2011.htm
Di Bates and Julie Fison get interviewed at Need to Read This: Di Bates http://www.needtoreadthis.com/featureauthor.html
Julie Fison http://www.needtoreadthis.com/randomacts.html
JE Fison’s Hazard River books get reviewed at: http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/kids-book-capers-blog/
More reviews of Bat Attack! and Tiger Terror! at: http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/03/review-tiger-terror-and-bat-attack.html JE Fison also blogging at: http://deescribewriting.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/hazard-river-books-on-tour/ and http://bit.ly/hOLubf
Paul Collins's latest book, Mole Hunt, Book #1 in The Maximus Black Files, gets a great tick in the May edition of Bookseller and Publisher. Here's the review: