Author Tour: Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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Fans of the multi-million selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series are in luck. The original Wimpy Kid, author Jeff Kinney is about to make his first ever trip to Australia. The Wimpy Kid books are a big hit in my house, along with millions of other households across the world, and that has been [...]

Author Interview: Natalie Reilly

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I recently had an interesting little book arrive unannounced on my desk and at the time I was in between books. I had a day or so up my sleeve and decided it might be fun – which it was. That book was What Your Mother Should Have Told You and Nobody Else Will and [...]

Author Desk: Rachael Johns

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It seems our file of authors are more than ready to allow us a glimpse into their writing worlds, this weeks author is Rachael Johns, author of Jilted which would have to be coming up for release soon. I best go check when, though if Rach was still here I’m sure she could tell me. [...]

Author Desk: Nicole Murphy

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The author working world corner is going so well, I have had lots of authors want to get in to this little corner which is great. I love it when something we thought would be fun works out. I don’t know about you guys but I am LOVING this feature, I am finding it motivates [...]

Author Interview: M.J. Hearle

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The interview I have for you today is the enigmatic M.J. Hearle who I knew very little about until recently. I was fortunate enough to have some questions answered and I hope you find the answers as enlightening as I did. On that note I’ll leave you to sit and read, I need to race [...]

Guest Post: When The Dream is Done…

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Nicole Murphy is an Australian author, living not very far from where I grew up to be specific and while that isn’t really relevant it does make her even more of an inspiration to me. The Right Connection is Nicole’s latest novella, just released this week, and in this post Nicole tells us a little [...]

Author Desk: Fiona Palmer

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Here at Beauty and Lace we love our authors, I love books and their authors and their publicists and all of the people it takes to put books on my bookshelf. Writing can be hard work and it definitely requires motivation, if that’s lacking it certainly shines through. So we thought it was time to [...]

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Ali Ahearn and Ros Baxter

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In the coming weeks  Harper Collins are publishing Sister Pact, the first collaborated book by Ali Ahearn and Ros Baxter a very down to earth pair of sisters that I was able to question about their process and their book. Their answers were lots of fun and I can’t wait to bury my head in [...]

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Cathryn Hein

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To continue in the current Rural Romance vein, I have recently been speaking with Melbourne based author Cathryn Hein.  Her new release Heart of the Valley is due for release with Penguin on April 26th, I can’t wait to read it if Cathryn’s bubbly personality shines through in her books. What made you decide you [...]

Crowning Glory: Western hair / Chinese hair – not same thing!

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Tania McCartney

Tania McCartney is an editor, presenter and book-obsessed author of both children’s and adult books. As an ACT Ambassador for the National Year of Reading 2012, she is passionate about literacy and children’s literature. Tania runs literary site Kids Book Review, writes for several online sites and loves paper, travel, marshmallows and laughing. Her latest [...]