In Portable Magic this week I speak to award-winning author Claire Saxby. Claire is renowned for her picture books, non fiction and poetry for children and is passionate about books and writing. Claire talks about her latest release and first middle grade novel Haywire, the challenges she faced writing it, her passion for books and...
This week I talk to the delightful Michael Earp. Michael was a sales rep with Walker Books Australia when we first met and was finishing his Masters in Writing and Children’s Literature. He was also working towards becoming a published author. Michael is currently the manager at Melbourne’s The Little Bookroom and continues to write....
In this week’s Portable Magic, I interview award-winning picture book author, Corinne Fenton about her beautiful work, extensive research process and her relationship with her books’ illustrators. Corinne also shares her vital ingredient to creating a successful picture book. Corinne is renowned for her heart-warming picture books, including My Friend Tertius, Queenie, One Elephant’s Story...
In this week’s edition of Portable Magic, I talk to junior fiction and picture book author, Michael Wagner about his books, cracking the picture book code, self-publishing and even a little bit of footy. Thank you Michael for your time and for sharing your experience and wisdom so freely. Just a reminder, if you don’t...
The response to the first Portable Magic interview with Kaye Baillie has been so encouraging. Thank you to everyone who has watched our chat. I’ve now finished recording the first ten interviews, and must thank the fabulous creators including for giving up their time to talk about their work. No spoilers – you’ll just have...
I held my breath during the first few weeks of COVID-19 isolation, because life as I knew it had changed. While it was a chaotic, frustrating and heartbreaking time for all of us, we’ve begun to adapt. Thanks to determined, forward thinkers businesses, industries and people have come up with new ways of doing things....
