Sally Murphy

Warning! Warning! This might be the most boring Week That Was post of the whole year!   I reviewed – lots of series books for the Funday section in the Sunday Telegraph – the Lily the Elf series by Anna Branford, illustrated by Lisa Coutts, The Quest of the Sunfish: Escape to Moon Islands by Mardi…

Lately I find myself writing posts about other people’s blog posts and today I’m doing it again. Meg McKinlay has written a wonderful post about ‘quiet writing’, writing where action is not the driving force. She talks about how she has to focus on ‘things happening’ and that ‘forward narrative movement is the hardest thing of…

One of the sessions I attended at the Australia-NZ 2014 SCBWI Conference gave the advice “love your publisher”. It was definitely a love-fest at this month’s inaugural Walker Books Australia (WBA) Author-Illustrator Conference. And what was not to love? It was a time for catching up with old friends – too many to name –…

To help celebrate the launch of her new verse novel Toppling, I have been blogging over at Sally Murphy’s Writing For Children blog on What Sandy Fussell Likes About Children’s Poetry. At first I was hesitant – after all, what do I know about poetry. I’m not a poet although I do love to read…

Today I have my fancy dress on – the one with the shiny things on the front, my coloured glass jewellery (more shiny things) and gold sandals – OK I’m not much of a fashion follower – but I do have an important job today. I’m launching a book. Not just any book. A book…

I was fortunate to be a Storyteller at the 2009 Sydney Children’s Festival. The audience were too young for my own books so I took along a selection of my favourite picture books. Including Snowy’s Christmas which got more encores than all the other titles put together. I must have read it ten times. I…