Meet Wenlu!

...... the illustrator for my first three e-books (soon to be launched in print in Mandarin) ... here he is at his desk working on 'Loud Lyrebird' and 'Messy Mermaid' (the 'L' and 'M' stories from my A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales) - a very talented artist ...

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My Japanese Book is now released - 'Stories to Touch the Hearts of Children'

This is an exciting moment for me - this book is a beautiful publication done by Tokyo Shoseki - it has a hard cover with dust jacket, and is illustrated throughout - thank you to Chinatsu Sunaga for all her hard work with translation! The book includes some new stories written for the tsunami survivors - you can read an example of one of these on my 'stories' links page - "The Flowered Kimono"

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THIRD BOOK AN E-BOOK??

Finished story no 26 last week - my A- Z Collection of Behaviour Tales is complete!! Now working on the editing and intro - soon plan to upload it as an e-book - watch this space - will be announcing the title soon!! Family members putting invaluable artistic support into the cover design - thank you Marika (and Jamie)!

China Tour - October 2012

Back from China - great tour - 4 cities in 3 weeks - and books selling like hotcakes! Many new stories created at workshops - what a privilege to be doing this work!

I also had a chance to tell some of my favourite stories to groups in bookshops - here is a pic of me telling the Star Apple to 200 people in Guangzhou ....

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Project for Japan

I have been both honoured and humbled by a request to work with a Japanese translator on a collection of stories for the tsunami survivors ​- I am working on some creative impulses for this now - this continues on from my attempt to write stories for national and global crisis   - I include two examples here:

 For a copy of 'The Shadow Giant' (a story for the global crisis) click here 

For a copy of 'The Sparkling River' (a story written after the Brisbane floods) click here

Book launch - 27th July 2012

Thanks for all the thoughts and well-wishes for the Australian launch of my 101 Therapeutic Stories book - it was a wonderful wonderful evening - and a special thank you to Amber Greene for her enthusiastic 'launch' speech and Jamie Perrow for his charismatic MC role ...

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