A kettle of fish. It’s an odd mental picture and it’s an even odder idiom to get your head around. What exactly does it mean? Put the kettle on and join us as we spill the tea on the fishy origins of these sayings in this week’s Q&A – on our blog now: writerscentre.com.au/blog/qa-the-or…

Check out the website and the Meet the Author Page - Meet me!

Are you curious about how Owltitude Press came into being? Find out more here in our interview with Sue Bursztynski suebursztynski.blogspot.com/2025/04/owltit…

Join the Sydney #globalbookcrawl - you have till 27 April to get your passport stamped, win prizes Kinokuniya Sydney Abbey's Bookshop gleebooks Better Read Books and other participating bookshops ... Support your local bookshops and get to know them!

Learn about Princess Hayley's Comet and How to Organise a Successful Book Launch in articles in the 15 April issue of Buzz Words Magazine. More informative articles on the children's book industry to come! buzzwordsmagazine.com/?m=1

This looks like my kind of notebook.

I went to a talk by Tristan Bancks at Apple Sydney on storytelling and how to use Freeform to work through story ideas. He's an interesting speaker and gave some useful tips for writing, including free writing and storyboarding. If only the iPads were free not just on loan!

It is #indiepressday! Owltitude Press is a new press and proud to have published #Septopus and to be selling Princess Hayley's Comet. Order direct from us to support us at owltitude.com or just read more about us & follow. We will keep you updated on further projects.

I just watched The Wild Robot. I read the first 2 books years ago when they caught my eye in a bookstore and I bought them on impulse. Good, engaging reads but I didn't think they were well-known. The movie is amazing and I highly recommend it. m.imdb.com/title/tt296234…

Start of another week, top end of KNP for a bit of birding at Punda Maria (15 ground hornbills on the way up from Shingwedzi already today). Another four weeks in total to go, time flies.

💛Freebie Fridays 💛 This week we're giving away 5 ARC copies of our June novel, 'A Beautiful Family' by Jennifer Trevelyan. To enter, follow us ✅ like ❤️ and repost 🔁this post! The winner will be drawn next next. AUSTRALIAN entries only!

In MAY ... You MAY find a signed copy of #Septopus in Abbey's Bookshop ! It would be fabulous if you would purchase it too!

Brilliant advertising Bell Shakespeare. Got my vote!

💛Freebie Fridays 💛 This week we're giving away 5 ARC copies of our June novel, 'New Skin' by Miranda Nation, a powerful debut about first love and second chances. To enter, follow us ✅ like ❤️ and repost 🔁this post! The winner will be drawn next Friday. AUS entries only!

Michael Collins passed away on April 28th, 2021. While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon, Collins was in the Command Module, orbiting the moon by himself for 28 hours. He is often referred to as the "forgotten" astronaut. While half a billion people on Earth

If people ask me my favourite book or a book that has had the most impact on me, I think about what I read as a child. I feel that childhood books have far more power than people acknowledge.

The best way!

Reading is an experience, an exploration, an adventure. It is well worth the price of admission. In fact it could be fairly but higher priced in many cases because you come away, as you do from many great experiences, a changed person with more knowledge.

Is he a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle with a gun?