Stephenie Meyer's Twilight

What a fantastic present Kinokuniya Bookstore gave me for speaking about Tory and my book ‘That’s Why I Wrote This Song’ at their bookshop in Sydney. Fabulous bookshop by the way!!

I wanted to get Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ as everyone’s raving about it. Started reading it and love it – romance, danger, good and evil and yes … romance.

‘I’d never given much thought to how I would Die – ….’ that’s Twilights’ great beginning.

‘Billy, Billy, Billy,’ throbs through the stadium. Billy the lead singer punches the air with both fists. ‘Don’t judge me. Don’t judge me.’ After seeing ‘Good Charlotte’ – it gave me the opening to my book.

Writers Centre, Blake Prize and The Hughenden

Just had a board meeting at the NSW Writers Centre in its lovely heritage building at Rozelle in Sydney. I love being on the board because it has so many fantastic projects and I’m part of it:

• The Blake Prize – The Centre has worked towards The Blake Poetry Prize with the winner being announced 4th September, the party at the National Art School Darlinghurst, then a celebratory dinner at The Hughenden
• The Youth workshops in October run by Australia’s leading authors like Jeni Mawter, Greg Bastian,. Chris Cheng, Kate Forsyth ….. others …. and ME!
• The Indigenous Festival at the Centre 6th October with many fo the speakers staying at The Hughenden

Lots of other festivals, workshops, talks, parties.

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Lateral Learning Get together with Kate Forsyth, Richard Tulloch, Gus Gordon, Moya Simons and PARTY!

Zanibar at Newtown had authors and illustrators descend to party with wine, chicken wings and lots of talk.

Post Book Week Stories as we partied at the Lateral Learning Speakers’ Agency event.

Richard Tulloch is film making and back from touring international schools in Europe, Stephen Measday is chaotic with writing scripts for Hi-5, best selling fantasy author Kate Forsyth was flying out to Canberra that night to do a 2-day school tour,Gus Gordon is so flat out with picture books from Penguin he’s got no time to scratch himself, Moya Simons’ Walk Right In Dectective Agency series with Walker Books is going to be lead title in the Independents Booksellers catalogue and I AM JACK is doing amazingly with theatre bookings in 2009. I’m in demand to be a post play speaker in 2009 with the incredible actor Tim McGarry.

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I Am Jack Touring Regional NSW and the Desert

JACK’s everywhere from Cobar to Narromine to outback with the briliant MONKEYBAA Theatre.

I’ll by flying up in a tiny plane over desert to land in Lightening Ridge, the opal diggings where people live underground to stave off the intense summer heat and the freezing cold of desert nights.

That’s FUN!!!!

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I Am Jack Season at Riverside Theature

I can’t believe that the week at Riverside Theatre is over. What an experience.

Totally in awe of:

• Tim McGarry who played 9 characters in I AM JACK including JACK, Nanna, step dad Rob, Mum, Samantha, his 2 mates, Anna, Mr Angelou his teacher
• The Director Sandie Eldridge – it’s such a hard play to direct because there are so many characters and the set design is simple but complex
• The Creative team – Eva Di Cesare, Sandy and Tim who adapted my book into a play
• Set designer, sound designers,stage manager

LOVE THEM ALL.

There was an author and actor after show question time – so much fun and heaps of questions.

Robert Love the Director of the Riverside Theatre gave us a champagne and canape party at the end of the week.

I LOVED IT ALL.

By the way EVERY SHOW was fully booked!!!