There will be a book launch for The Dragon Companion in Melbourne. All welcome. I hope some of you will come along and say hello and help me celebrate the publication of this book which I have been working on for a long time. Here are the details. When: Sun 21 Oct 3 pm Where: [...]
The Dragon Companion should be in bookshops (in Australia) next week (1st October). It is an A-Z encyclopedia of dragons. black dog books has set up a terrific microsite for the Companion. It has some of the illustrations from the book. Here’s another one. There are extracts from the book as well. The extracts are [...]
The publishers who publish the Dragonkeeper series in other countries don’t always let me know when the books will be available. So I am grateful when overseas readers let me know. Tamina tells me Dragon Moon will be out in Germany in February 2008, and Ryanne has let me know that it will be out [...]
Sarah wanted to know how I managed to collect up 17 folders of information on dragons for my new book The Dragon Companion: An Encyclopedia (see post More Dragons on the Horizon.) Well it took a long time. I started reading general books on dragons. They led me to more specific dragon information, in books [...]
I’ve added a page of Frequently Asked Questions to this website. See FAQs in the menu. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to answer readers’ questions, it’s just that when I answer a comment on this blog, I do it off the top of my head and sometimes (particularly with the writers’ tips) I forget [...]
It is now only three weeks till my next book comes out. It’s called The Dragon Companion: an Encyclopedia. I am very proud of it. It is a beautiful hardback book with fabulous illustrations by Dean Jones. Here is the cover. (Click on the image to see a larger version.) It isn’t something I’ve whipped [...]
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BibliOdyssey
Fabulous blog of historical illustrations
Centre for Youth Literature: Writer in Residence Blog
A different writer blogs each month
Lili Wilkinson
My daughter’s blog
Andrew’s Black Dog Blog
My publisher’s blog
Yarra Climate Action Now
My local climate action group (of which I am a member)
Earthsign
The thoughtful and informed climate change blog of a fellow YCAN member
