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I am delighted to announce that I am now being represented by Fiona Johnson at Beyond Words Literary Agency. Perhaps it was the butterflies in Beyond Words’ logo – that’s a set of stories for another day. Perhaps it is that Fiona is a woman you have to admire.  At 25, Fiona beat an aggressive… Read more New Agent and new project with CSIRO Publishing

The Ballad of Melodie Rose is the second book in Kate Gordon’s Direleafe Hall series for middle-grade girls. As with The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn, the first book in this series, Gordon has once again produced a lyrical and startlingly original novel about being kind, being human and understanding one’s place in the cosmos. A… Read more Review of Kate Gordon’s The Ballad of Melodie Rose, UQP

            The Tasmania chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) hosted a How to Pitch Webinar in July this year, to prepare children’s book creators for our August PitchFest. Author/illustrator, Christina Booth, and publisher/author, Mark Macleod, of Dirt Lane Press, presented engaging talks on how to… Read more SCBWI TASMANIA PITCHFEST

Kate Gordon’s marvelous new middle-grade novel will sing to every sensitive girl or woman who has ever felt herself to be an outsider. The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn is a gothic children’s fantasy that soars above its tropes – Direleafe Hall, the once grand, but now dilapidated school for girls; Ms Gallow, the grim-faced teacher… Read more Review of The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn by Kate Gordon

Last Saturday 25 May, I was one of over 200 children’s book creators who headed to the grand old Melbourne Town Hall for this year’s KidLitVic conference. From a career point of view, this was one of the best spent Saturdays of my life. KidLitVic aims to connect children’s literary creators with Australia’s leading children’s… Read more KidLitVic – Meet the Publishers 2019