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After the Storm - Launching into the Future

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As I sit in disbelief, still reeling slightly at images of my old digs on an island in the Whitsundays that I used to call home, I reflect on what it means to loose something. The trees on Hamilton Island are completely denuded, reduced to leafless trunks standing damp and defenceless in a landscape that resembles a nuclear test sight. It is truly heartbreaking to see. Harbour View apartments Hamilton Island photo attribute Newcastle Herald I have some idea of what it must be like there. I have lived through one or two cyclones in my time, after all, even whilst on Hamilton but I can't pretend to know what those who've lost their homes, their boats, their livelihoods are feeling. Loss is a personal thing that affects each and every one of us in profoundly different ways.   On a far less violent and brutal front, now that the new-publication storm surrounding the launch of The Fix-It Man subsides, I take a further moment to reflect on this book of mine and Nicky

Fixing Things One Word at a Time

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Today's feature in the Gold Coast Bullentin's Weekend Coast magazine lift out, sums up much of what I feel about what and why I create as a children's author. Read John Affleck's impressions on my 'compelling children's book in which healing a broken family takes more than a quick fix'. Befittingly, illustrator Nicky Johnston's melting illustrations 'say plenty' as well.   Read John's additional article in the Bully about, The Fix-It Man and my next picture book due out with EK Books in 2018, here .

Happy Publication Day!

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Today, we celebrate this   in all its wonderful glory. Thank you EK Books and Nicky Johnston for being part of an amazing dream come true. I'll be celebrating with a live cross to ABC Canberra Radio . Feel free to pop a bottle of bubbles on my behalf until I return. 😊