You know that old cliche “Never in my wildest dreams”? Well, I never say that. Because as we all know, good writers avoid cliches like the plague…and in my wildest dreams, I’m usually fighting a one-woman guerrilla war against Columbian drug lords, or facing down a serial killer threatening a library full of school children [...]
Archive for the ‘Henry Hoey Hobson’ Category
Mum, there’s a little thing I need you to do….
Posted: February 16, 2012 in Children's fiction, Dust, Henry Hoey Hobson, Reading, YA FictionTags: Book Links Qld, Making a list with David Malouf, Nick Earls, The Big Read, Vote for your favourite Queensland book, wildest dreams
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Good things come in threes
Posted: August 22, 2011 in Events, Henry Hoey Hobson, MusingsTags: CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, Fiona Wood Six Impossible Things, Good things come in threes, impossible dreams, Qld Premier's Literary Awards, WA Premier's Book Awards
What is it about the power of three? ABC 123 Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub Hewie, Dewie and Louie The three little pigs The Three Musketeers And now, Henry Hoey Hobson. Three ordinary little words that, slung together, have somehow made a whole, greater than the sum of its parts. Twelve months after being [...]
My Clayton’s Shortlist
Posted: April 12, 2011 in Events, Henry Hoey Hobson, Reading, YA FictionTags: AJ Betts Wavelength, Anthony Eaton Daywards, Cassandra Golds The Three Loves of Persimmon, Cath Crowley Graffiti Moon, Fiona Wood Six Impossible Things, Melina Marchetta The Piper's Son, Qld Clayton's Shortlist
I take my hat off to the real judges of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Not just because they short-listed my Henry Hoey Hobson For Book of the Year for Younger Readers (though, let’s be honest, I LOVE them for that), but because they do such a difficult job, for little pay or [...]
Swimming in inspiration
Posted: April 11, 2011 in Dust, Henry Hoey Hobson, Musings, WritingTags: Henry Hoey Hobson, Kelvin Grove Amateur Swimming club, Swimming in Inspiration, the raft from Dust, This Writing Life, Where we writers find inspiration
Funny, what inspires us as writers. I’ve never been much of a swimmer myself. I can manage a stately breast stroke in a flowered bathing cap, but it just isn’t my thing, if you know what I mean. I grew up on a farm, in the middle of a drought, and was ten years old [...]
Triple H makes the Readers Cup!
Posted: February 21, 2011 in Events, Henry Hoey Hobson, YA FictionTags: Henry Hoey Hobson, Readers Cup
A huge thank you to all the hard-working librarians who have chosen Henry Hoey Hobson for this year’s Readers Cup. Five regions so far – Brisbane South, Brisbane Bayside, Gold Coast, Capricornia and Somerset/Lockyer – have put HHH on the list of books to be read in their regional competitions in June. Other regions will [...]
Digging in its claws
Posted: September 20, 2010 in Dust, Henry Hoey Hobson, Writing, YA FictionTags: Christine Bongers, digging in its claws, Henry Hoey Hobson, ideas are like hungry cats, Intruder, This Writing Life, Where ideas come from
People love to know where we writers get our ideas. They seem to think that ideas are elusive, and that we find them in secret places where others never think to look. The truth is that ideas spring at us from all directions. Like hungry cats, they clamour for our attention, rubbing up against our [...]
The unravelling
Posted: November 22, 2009 in Crime, Henry Hoey Hobson, Writing, YA FictionTags: Christine Bongers, Henry Hoey Hobson, The Lonely Dead, The Unravelling, This Writing Life
I’m at a loose end. Pull it and I’ll start to unravel. The revisions are done, the publishing Gods temporarily appeased after taking my second-born. Henry Hoey Hobson has left home, whisked away on secret publisher’s business to an unknown location, a brutal boot camp where a merciless editor will whip his scrawny arse into [...]
