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Tomorrow is a special day - December 1, the start of Advent, and officially time to start preparing for Christmas. Yippee!  I've said it before and I'll say it again - I LOVE Christmas. But of course, I've been a bit naughty (shhhh - don't tell Santa) and have been celebrating Christmas for the past 11 days here on this blog, and elsewhere. My excuse is a good one -I've been celebrating not just

Deck the shed with bits of wattle, fa la la la la la... Oh, hi there. Come to join the Christmas party? If you've just tuned in, I'm having a blog tour with a difference - because it's really a rerun of a blog tour. That's right, a rerun. To celebrate this year's release of  Snowy's Christmas in paperback  I'm revisiting the blog tour that I took last year to celebrate its release in hardcover.

Joy to the world, la la la laaaaaaaa..... I am really enjoying getting into the festive spirit and celebrating the rerelease of Snowy's Christmas - and I hope you are, too. Today, we revisit week six of last year's tour, where I visited the Aussiereviews blog to chat a bit about what it's like when the reviewer becomes the reviewed, a topic pretty dear to my heart. Enjoy.

Ho ho ho! Merry almost-Christmas. I'm so glad you've dropped in for some Christmas fare - and day 3 of my rerun blog tour. If you've not been round lately, you may not know that I'm celebrating the paperback release of Snowy's Christmas by revisiting the blog tour I had last year when I celebrated the hardcover release. So, today, I take you back to week three of last year's tour where David and

Welcome back. If you weren't here yesterday, then you may not know that, in the tradition of all good end of year programming, I'm running some reruns. Specifically, for eleven days, I am rerunning my blog tour for Snowy's Christmas. Yesterday, I took you back to week one of last year's tour. Today, then, we revisit week two - and head over to Dale Harcombe's review of  Snowy's Christmas. Enjoy

This time last year I was hopping around the word wide web having fun on a big blog tour to celebrate the launch of Snowy's Christmas. I had so much fun on that tour, that, with the book having just been released in a new paperback format, I thought I might try something new - and rerun my blog tour. So, in the tradition of all good reruns, I bring you, day by day, my first ever blog tour rerun.

Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you - you still have plenty of time to do your shopping, make your lists, check it twice - even to be naughty and/or nice - but today marks the beginning of my Christmas festivities because today marks the release of the paperback edition of Snowy's Christmas. I'm amazed to think it's been 13 months since the release of the hardcover version, but delighted that

Last month I had a blog tour with a difference (more on that in a moment) to celebrate the release of Toppling. This week my writer friend http://www.catrionahoy.com.au/embarks on her first ever blog tour, to promote her new picture book Puggle (she’ll be calling in here in a few days’ time). So, with all this blog touring happening, I thought it might be timely to talk a little about what a

Dear Santa It’s Christmas Eve and this children’s author is reflecting on the year that was, and, of course, thinking about what she’d like to find in her writerly stocking tomorrow morning. I have had the best year of my writing life and for that I am really grateful. The release of Pearl Verses the World in May was the beginning of a wonderful merry go round of nice reviews, excellent

Time for another stop on the Snowy's Christmas blog tour. This week I am visiting with the lovely Sandy Fussell, at Stories are Light, talking about Christmas stories, and what makes them special. We'd love to see you there.If you’ve missed any of the other tour stops, you can find them at:Week One: 4 October Deescribe Writing Blog Week Two: 11 October Write and Read With DaleWeek three: 18

Today marks the eighth stop in the Snowy's Christmas blog tour. This week I'm visiting Roby Opie at her Writing Children's Books blog, where we are chatting about promotion. Drop by and, if you have a moment, leave us a comment so we know you've visited.

It's Sunday, which means another stop on the Snowy's Christmas blog tour. Today I'm breakfasting with my friend, talented WA illustrator Samantha Hughes. Drop by for some bacon and eggs at this link.If you’ve missed the start of the tour, you can follow it at:Week One: 4 October Deescribe Writing Blog Week Two: 11 October Write and Read With DaleWeek three: 18 October Alphabet Soup Blog Week Four

Welcome to the fifth stop on the Snowy’s Christmas blog tour. Illustrator David Murphy (yes, we have the same surname – he’s my wonderful brother in law) has dropped in to chat about his role in the book’s creation. Welcome Dave.1. What was it like to get your first publishing contract?It was very exciting to receive a phone call from Sally, telling me we had received a request to write and

Today is the second Sunday in my eleven-Sunday blog tour. Today’s stop is at Write and Read With Dale where Dale Harcombe has some lovely things to say about Snowy’s Christmas.In part she says: “This is a cute Christmas picture book with a positive message,” going on to say ” It’s lovely to see an Aussie Christmas book that reflects the wildlife, colour and landscape of Australia.” To see the

The virtual launch may be done and dusted, but the celebrations to mark the release of Snowy’s Christmas are still in full swing. Today marks the beginning of our eleven week blog tour. Each Sunday for the next eleven weeks we’ll be visiting a different blog to talk about Snowy, about the writing and illustrating life, about Christmas – in fact about whatever the blog owners ask us to talk about