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Takeshita Demons is OUT NOW! The award-winning Takeshita Demons is out now in the UK, with Australian and US releases later this year. It's a spooky yokai adventure for younger readers, featuring awesome illustrations by Siku, of Judge Dredd fame. Read more on my blog or follow me on Twitter. |
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What about your real job? I'm a biotechnologist, writer, editor, presenter... I've edited CSIRO's Scientriffic magazine, performed with Questacon's science circus, helped with PR for CERN's atom smasher, worked as a teacher and editor in Japan, and written heaps of articles. |
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Winner! 2009 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award Takeshita Demons has won the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award for diversity in childrens' fiction. |
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Winner! 2008 Voices on the Coast Childrens Writing competition One Weekend with Killiecrankie has won the 2008 Voices on the Coast writing competition. Thanks to Varuna House and Julia Lawrinson for all their help and advice! |
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Winner! Young and Emerging Writer award My first children’s manuscript, One Weekend with Killiecrankie, has won a “Young and Emerging Writer” fellowship, awarded by Varuna House. This means I have been selected as one of five emerging young writers in Australia...Yee ha! |
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What's new? I'm writing the third Takeshita Demons book; the second, called The Filth Licker will come out in 2011. I'm also working on a number of projects as an editorial consultant, helping to make complex scientific information more accessible and interesting for ordinary people. |
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Wish you were here... I also write feature articles for magazines: popular science, great food and my favourite: tropical island getaways. |