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My children's sf books "Take me to your Leader", "Red Hot Pet" and
"Beast of Moogill" have sold licences to be printed and sold in the US via
Rigby Harcourt Achieve (still available locally via Blake Ed) and eventually I got a nice cheque. Writers hardly ever get nice cheques, so this is big news.

Also this is a lesson in retaining rights in all media, and trying to get published with a company with connections. You never know when a company that has its act together will branch out in a new way. I mean that literally, no publishers have time to keep their authors informed about everything... or often anything. You submit to a void, it seems, and you mail contracts off to a void and sometimes, a cheque comes back... and it really is amazing everytime that happens!

It's been a busy year so far. I've had adult short sf stories accepted by Sputnik 57, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Flashspec 2, Antipodean SF, and Orb Magazine. I've been trying to meet every deadline for children's writers that I have a reasonable chance of being accepted in, and actually wrote a children's short story in two days! Normally I agonise over them for weeks and weeks, but this just flowed. Nothing like a good writing day to make me feel like a "real" writer.

If you're in Australia and want to get out and learn more about writing. Check out your closest writing centre for these upcoming events: On Saturday, 30th June, the NSW Writer's Centre will be holding the 'Writing for Children and Young Adults Festival'. It will be a day of readings, panel sessions, book launches and author talks from Australia's most popular writers for children and young adults. Queensland Writer's Centre will be hosting a masterclass on young adult fiction with James Moloney on Sunday, 12th August. While Victorian Writer's Centre expands the genre with a workshop on writing children's television with Chris Roache on Tuesday, 17th July from 6.30-8pm.

Hotel MacDibble Inmates: 4
Projects of the Week: Getting winter veggies going
Critiqued this week: 0!
Reading this week: The Best of SF
Writing this week: Editing Blurred Horizons

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