OMG! I met the Grinch at the Sydney Writers' Festival!

Booksellers do an incredible job promoting the work of local authors, and I was delighted to visit one of my favourites - THE LITTLE BOOKROOM in Melbourne, Victoria.

GREAT MOMENTS IN TURNING HISTORY - The first ever school talk for THE TURNERS.

MEETING FANS at PAGES & PAGES bookstore in Mosman. One of the best independent bookstores in Sydney, run by about the nicest and most passionate bunch of booksellers you will ever meet.

THAT MOMENT WHEN... you realise that by sheer luck of the first letter of your surname, your book is rubbing shoulders with the greatest children's writer of all time. (Thank you for everything, Mr Dahl.) And if you haven't read BOY and GOING SOLO, what have you been doing with your life...?!

BOOK SIGNINGS look glamorous, but usually I am secretly just trying not to spell anyone's name wrong. Including mine.

TALKING TO SCHOOL KIDS IN REMOTE SCHOOLS ACROSS QUEENSLAND, as part of the 2016 Ashgrove Literature Festival.