Posts by Judith
Isobelle Carmody and the Great Ebook Debate
A few months ago, the lovely Isobelle Carmody wrote to me and asked me if I’d like to be part of a new online venture she was undertaking, to coincide with the e-publication of her wonderful 1997 novel Greylands. The purpose of the site—only intended to be live for a month—is to celebrate the launch…
Read MoreDo you trust me, too?
This is a bit of sightly old news, now, but even belatedly, I am pretty happy to share it with you. Sometime last year, I received an email from Paul Collins, from Ford St Publishing, asking me if I would be interested in writing an introduction to their new anthology, to be called Trust Me…
Read MoreWriters, writers everywhere…
Yup, it’s (been) that time of year again—Sydney Writers’ Festival and the many and varied events that go along with it. It’s a busy time of year for me—made slightly less so by the fact that the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards dinner didn’t happen this year, and also by the fact that I piked on…
Read MoreHow Diana Wynne Jones Changed My Life
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…
Read MoreIn a related world…
Somewhere filed away are the first drafts—rough, meagre things that they are—of my first attempt at writing a thesis for my Masters degree. I was in my late 20s, newly married (though not for long), and desperately in love with the books I was writing about, and the field that I had entered into with…
Read MoreViewing The Hunger Games
I won’t pretend to be the world’s biggest Hunger Games fan. I’ve only read the first of the trilogy—which I thoroughly enjoyed, despite having some misgivings about some of the world-building—and while the news I heard about the film all sounded good to me (casting, the fact that author Suzanne Collins was involved in the…
Read MoreGleeful about YA
aka Infinite Glee! Blink and you would have missed it…
Read MorePicking your brains
Hello dear neglected readers… In a little under a month, I am presenting my picks for this year’s CBCA Older Readers’ shortlist at the NSW Branch’s annual “Triple A: Anticipate! Appreciate! Applaud!” event (what we used to call the Clayton’s Shortlist back when I was on the committee). I am starting to narrow down on…
Read MoreA Vagrant Thought
Last year, I attended an “In Conversation” between author (and my friend and colleague) Libby Gleeson and Geoff Williams at the University of Sydney. Libby is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and Social Work, and the In Conversation canvassed her creative process as a writer of picture books and longer fiction for…
Read MoreSendak on Colbert Part 2
Bingo! Part 2 at last! The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
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