2003

Awards:

New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards (2003)
Shortlisted - The Ethel Turner Prize for young people of secondary school level

The Childrens Book Council of Australia Awards (2003)
Honour Book : Older Readers

Australian Family Therapists Award (2003)
for Childrens/Youth Novel

 

"And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible like eat oysters or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe because that is what people did when they truly loved one another and it had nothing to do with freckles or anklebones or lipstick."
-Painted Love Letters.

2004

The Airdancer of Glass was my first attempt at speculative fiction.
I really enjoyed writing it and learnt a lot about world building.
I'm using those skills in my new book, which is a fantasy novel.

 

'Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at a time when history is being made- but that doesn't mean anything by itself. Anyone can be in that place and turn their back on it. You have to be prepared to act.'
-The Airdancer of Glass.