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What’s Melbourne mean to me?

The city of literature.

Brilliant creative friends

My welcoming publishers – Lisa Berryman from HarperCollins – thankyou for a great dinner

Paul Collins from Fort Street Publishing – thankyou for your hospitality

Hazel Edwards who gave such a beautiful launch speech for ‘Gracie and Josh’.

Thankyou to the fabulous authors and illustrators who came along to the launch on a long weekend

Special thanks to Meredith Costain and Niki Horin for the editorial inspiration for ‘Gracie and Josh’

Serena Geddes – what can I say? She captured the joy of Gracie and Josh who jump from the pages of the book.

VARIETY the children’s charity – I love VARIETY and Kathryn the marketing manager for Variety Victoria gave such a special speech about helping kids – ‘Gracie and Josh’ is helping them too.

Excited to catch up with the talented Jen McVeity -and hear her Highlighting Writing tours.

Corrine Fenton – the award winning picture book author who leads SCBWI Victoria – love what you are doing for kids writers and illustrators in Victoria – the retreat sounds amazing

…..  so many friends …. radio interviews especially loved being in the ABC Tardis ……and so much more!!!!!

My friends piled into Readings Bookstore for the launch of ALIEN SHORES  - authors Jen McVeity, Hazel Edwards, Meredith Costain, Paul Collins, Rose Inserra, illustrator Marjory Gardner. Love them.

Julian Burnside QC gave a moving speech to launch ‘Alien Shores’ edited by Sharon Rundle and Meenakshi Bharat.  I felt overwhelmed by Julian’s description of a refugee who converted to Christianity and would have been stoned brutally if forced back to Iran.

Arnold Zable read a segment from his story in ‘Alien Shores’.

Sharon Rundle and I spoke on ABC Radio National with the insightful Michael Cathcart about ‘Alien Shores’.

Michael Cathcart also talked about my personal story in ‘Ships in the Field’ illustrated by Anna Pigantaro and how that related to ‘Alien Shores’.