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Kill Your Darlings Online Workshop

My #LoveOzYA novel NEVERLAND is out now!

NEVERLAND cover

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New favourite book in our bedtime rotation! Such a beautiful, hopeful and empowering story and the artwork is exquisite. Frankie is one lucky ducky to have a signed copy! Thank you so much, Aunty @dbinks and @sherrill.ng 💕😘💕 #ourlittleinventor
Absolutely loved this quiet, heartbreaking YA story of a young woman who is grieving the loss of the grandfather who raised her while struggling to accept that he was not the perfect guardian she imagined him to be. I cried many times reading WE ARE OKAY and highly recommend. 💙 Thank you so much for sending a copy my way, @uqpbooks 😘
Working my way through a delightful mix of books at the mo. Currently reading The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey, How Toddlers Thrive by Tovah P. Klein & Educated by Tara Westover (that last one I’m listening to as an audiobook and it is *captivating*). Also a teensy bit proud of myself for taking on not one BUT THREE non-fic reads at once ☺️ And when I finish those I’ve got a bunch of much anticipated fiction to keep my going: YA, lit fic and crime—ALL MY FAVES!! 📚📚📚 Have you read any of these or have them on your TBR? In the past I haven’t been a great reader of non-fic but I’m making an effort to include more in my reading this year. 📚📚📚 P.S. A big thank you to @bloomsburypublishing for sending me a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s CITY OF GIRLS and to @harpercollinsaustralia for CRITICAL INCIDENTS by Lucie Whitehouse. I’m such a huge fan of both authors and can’t wait to read these!! 😘😘
Finally found a solid chunk of reading time over the weekend to finish @kirstylogan’s #TheGloaming, an eerily beautiful story of love and grief sprinkled with dark fairytale magic. I first came across Kirsty Logan’s work when I read her novel The Gracekeepers a few years ago and I fell in love with her layered and whimsical prose. Highly recommend for fans of Angela Carter and Margo Lanagan. 🧜‍♀️🌊💙✨
I’ll kick off every weekend like this, please and thank you. I started @kirstylogan’s #TheGloaming when we were down in Port Elliot a fortnight ago, and life’s kept me from getting back to it since. Very pleased to have some quiet time to enjoy a few more chapters this morning—mermaids and selkies are exactly what I’m in the mood for. 🌊🧜‍♀️💙
🎂One year today since my book baby was officially released into the wild!!🎂 A huge, huge, HUGE thank you to all the readers, librarians, booksellers, fellow authors, family and friends who have shown their support for NEVERLAND—seeing it published has been (and continues to be) an awfully big adventure! An extra special thank you to my agent, @dbinks, and to @zozie_walton, @ladymary_v and the fabulous team at @penguinteenaus for helping me turn this story into a book! 🌊🧜‍♀️💙🐚⛵️⚓️✨
First draft of my next manuscript is D-O-N-E, *DONE*. Pictured here with my reward reading pile 😁📚 Now the real work begins! As a side note, I loathe—LOATHE—writing first drafts. Mine are always messy and overcrowded with ideas that don’t go anywhere. But I love editing and I’m so excited/relieved to *finally* have the foundation for this story down so I can have at it with my red pen. Fellow writers, how do you find the drafting process? Do you prefer the first-draft thrill of the blank page or the reworking that comes after? And how do you motivate yourself to keep writing to the end?
I love, love, LOVE Kirsty Logan’s fiction: lyrical, nautical, fairytale-inspired fantasy. I made a start on The Gloaming while we were down at Pt Elliot this weekend and I wish I could take it to the beach with me this morning and finish it off. If you haven’t read her earlier novel, The Gracekeepers, I highly recommend. 🧜‍♀️🌊
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