Tristan Bancks

One of the things I love about social media is it makes my brain buzz. Read like a Reader, Read Like a Writer About a week ago I wandered into a conversation going on in Jen Storer’s Duck Pond Facebook Group about whether writers should read. Jen has written a thought-provoking blog post (Want to Be a Writer? 6…

To celebrate Al Tait’s mega exciting news that The Mapmaker Chronicles has been optioned for film, here’s my list of a further five books that would make excellent movies.             Spark – Rachael Craw.  Action romance, gorgeous leading man, gutsy leading lady, sci-fi thrills. What more could anyone want in a…

Nit Boy – Lift Off and Nit Boy – Bug Out by Tristan Bancks Illustrated by Heath McKenzie Laguna Bay Publishing Australia rrp $14.95 Paperback Junior fiction $14.95 These easy to read books are perfect for newly independent readers. A good story. Lots of humour. Funny drawings by Australian illustrator Heath McKenzie. Eleven-year-old Lewis has…

This week’s guest is author, actor, presenter, fim-maker, writer and much-too-talented Tristan Bancks. Tristan is the author of the YA seriedy resulted in a family tug-of-war in our house but more about that tomorrow. Tonight it’s Tristan’s turn to answer a few questions: 1 The last children’s/YA book you read (fiction or non-fiction) Slam by…

The Teaser Tuesdays meme is hosted by Should Be Reading. It’s easy and fun. Open your current read at a random page and share two sentences from somewhere between lines 7 and 12. There’s one important rule – no spoilers! At every training session, hundreds of crawlers gazed up through the hair canopy in awe…

I haven’t even opened the first page and already I love these. I love the series title. Nit Boy. The mind boggles and the imagination goes flying after it. I love the Heath MacKenzie drawings. The blurb has suckered me in. Totally. The publicist gets a gold star for coining the phrase Nit Lit. But…