Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Slight interruption to Xmas programming…

    Just a tad excited to get proof layouts yesterday of the next four reader-style books I’ve written for the American publishing company. I know so much more about jet fighters than I ever did before!!! But the design team have done a great job. Actually all I’ve seen of their books for kids are excellent…

  • Your Time Brisbane Edition 129 – December 2025

    Look who’s got the cover story!! *takes a bow*

  • Picture Book Month Bonus: a little puff for us.

    So along with my first published book being only weeks away now.. My foray into magazine writing continues a-pace with 3 articles published in the current Caloundra Chronicle (the attached are the proof copies with some typos), the second column for Inspiring Minds sent off and a forthcoming lead article in the YourTime over-55s community…

  • Inside Story: a creative writing masterclass – Sue Lawson and Jodi Toering

    Wild Dog Books Distributed by Simon & Schuster April 2024 ISBN13: 9781742036670 RRP: AU$ 24.99 / NZ$ 28.99 If your teaching experiences have been like mine -whether primary or secondary kiddos or both as mine have been – there are always those who really struggle with creative writing. Truth be told, I also do –…

  • Hooray for Book Week!

      We wear ourselves out getting ready for it – with planning over months and are thoroughly but satisfyingly over it by the time it’s done and yet we wait impatiently for the next year’s theme so we can do it all over again! Our preparations have been underway for weeks and our library looks…

  • Blueberry Pancakes Forever – Angelica Banks

    ISBN: 9781760110451 Publisher :Allen & Unwin Imprint: A & U Children Pub Date: June 2016 RRP $15.99   As soon as I opened the package I was bursting to read this third and last instalment in the Tuesday McGillycuddy trilogy. And so I did in one sitting, devouring it as easily and happily as Tuesday…

  • A Week Without Tuesday (A Tuesday McGillyCuddy Adventure #2) – Angelica Banks

      ISBN:9781760110376 Publisher:Allen & Unwin Imprint:A & U Children Series:A Tuesday McGillycuddy Adventure Pub Date:May 2015 Page Extent:400 Format:Paperback – RRP $15.99 Perhaps it’s because Tasmania is smallish, perhaps it’s because it’s coldish, perhaps it’s because it’s so beautiful, perhaps it’s because there is so much variety – whatever it is we seem to have…