It'll be just like starting over...
On weight training and writing droughts, awards news, a new 'Ella' adventure and why sometimes you have to go back to the beginning
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Writing, publishing and kidlit news and procrastination.
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Meet the Creator: Karen Comer
“Making an art journal for each book is such an important part of my process. It helps me gather together all my ideas slowly ... The colour and pattern invite me to think in non-linear ways.”
Meet the Creator: Emily Gale
"While I’d been inside the novel, I was safe and happy and the moment it was over I was out in the cold. I just wanted to get back inside as soon as possible."
Meet the Creator: Samera Kamaleddine
“I was so consumed by books that I never learnt to ride a bike – while other kids were outside adventuring on two wheels, my sister and I were on the couch, sharing our stories with each other.”
Breaking the drought
On inspiration and despair and everything in between
What's Ella up to now?
Missing frogs, pesky siblings, environment detectives and how to break a curse...
Ella and the Environment Award
On holding onto hope, nurturing curiosity, and falling in love with nature when you're young
Meet the Creator: Bethany Loveridge
"I can’t pinpoint the moment it became a core part of my identity, but I believe I was born to tell stories."
Meet the Creator: Zanni Louise
“I don't want future generations to miss out on the wonder of creating something from nothing.“
How to Book Week
Sharing the hard-won wisdom, hot takes and secret joys from my first two Book Weeks as an author
Meet the Creator: Emily Snowdon
"I think trying lots of different mediums and subjects really helped me refine what kind of artist I wanted to be."
Meet the Creator: Sarah Armstrong
"Books really were a window to the world for me – I felt I was glimpsing all these possible futures, all the possible lives I might live."
Dispatches from deep winter
Delayed onset melancholia, birthdays, anniversaries, award stickers and existential crises
Meet the Creator: Kiah Thomas
"Storytelling was my way of connecting – with the world when I felt lost and alone, with my kids... and with myself, finding my way back to this thing that I loved."
Meet the Creator: Shara Curlett
"My stories feel a bit like fishing – I have to hook myself into one. If it really gets me, I can’t stop until I finish it."
Scattered thoughts for the weekend
On journalling and overthinking, meeting your heroes, and why we write
Meet the Creator: Deborah Frenkel
"When I’m tempted to throw everything in and try to get a job doing something REALLY useful... I keep coming back to how important books are – for kids, and for the adults they'll become."
Meet the Creator: Katherine Collette
"It’s always worked for me to follow the ‘pings’, those little nudges in your brain that say: Hey, try this..."
Autumn interlude
A new series, a dreamy writing residency at Billilla Mansion, a project interviewing kidlit legends, and the dreaded job hunt...
Meet the Creator: Fiona Hardy
"As far as adult books go, it's kind of fun to maybe shoot a bad guy a little in a crime book, when in a kids' book you should probably just go tell a trusted adult."