CBCA Notables 2009

Ive always wanted to try embedding a YouTube video into my blog. All I needed was a good excuse. I do have a video of me talking and you can find that here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7IUCoRjguU but I needed a better excuse than that. And here it finally is. The excuse I’ve been waitng for. Drum roll……

I keep being asked why I haven’t blogged my recent shortlisting in the 2009 CBCA Younger Readers category. Aren’t you thrilled they ask? Oh yes. Very, very, very thrilled. Also astounded and humbled. But most of all, for once in my life, absolutely wordless.

OK yesterday was Mo Johnson day but it is quickly turning into Mo Johnson week. More congratulations are due. On Tuesday I mentioned how much I loved her first release Boofheads. Well so do a lot of other people and it was selected as a Notable Book in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards…