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On Tuesday morning, I was extremely excited and enormously relieved to reach the target for my crowd-funding campaign. The campaign was to cover the costs of self-publishing, ‘The Curse of Grandma Maple!’ a book for primary school kids that features a rainbow family. That evening – happily exhausted – I wrote this to say, ‘Thank […]
‘The Curse of Grandma Maple!’ I’ve written a book for rainbow families – this time for the kids and their friends. It’s a fun, fast-paced mystery adventure about two Australian kids, Connor and Sam, and their Canadian cousins. I’ve decided to self-publish and I’m running a crowd-funding campaign to cover the costs. If you click […]
Nicole Hayes and I first met in 2001 at Varuna, ‘The National Writers’ House’, in Katoomba NSW. We were both recipients of a fellowship for ‘emerging writers’ and I recall a glorious week of uninterrupted writing time, one-on-one professional editing and elaborate evening meals cooked by somebody else. Sarah says that whenever she tried to […]
This week’s blog is an important one. It’s about a long-standing Melbourne institution that’s been supporting the LGBTIQ community – and Rainbow Families – for over twenty years and which now needs the community’s support. Crusader Hillis and his partner, Rowland Thomson, own and run the bookshop, café, bar and venue, Hares & Hyenas in […]