From the March/April 2006 issue of The Horn Book MagazineForeign CorrespondenceStories to Make Mountains Start Breathing by Judith RidgeWhen Popeye Bobby walks in, everybody stands back. He’s real gentle this old fulla, but no one messes with him, neither. He’s real powerful… He can tell you stories that make mountains start breathing. —from The Binna Binna Manby Meme…

This is the paper I gave at Diana Wynne Jone: A Conference, in at the University of the West of England, Bristol, July 2009. It’s a mix of personal anecdote and analysis of English fantasy and Australian children’s fiction of the 60s and 70s. But mostly it was, and is, my heartfelt thanks and tribute…

This was the speech I made to launch Bite Me! , a collection of short stories by John Larkin, somewhere around 1999/2000. Before tonight, I had never met John Larkin. Now this may come as something of a surprise to you, for a number of reasons. If you know John, I guess that you would…