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The blog tour for Do Not Forget Australia continues, and today I’m delighted to be visiting Dale Hacrombe’s blog and talking about characters. Dale has also posted a lovely review of the book.

Do stop by and stay hello. There is a copy of Do Not Forget Australia to be be won!

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A New Book!

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Happy happy day! I am really thrilled, excited, delighted, happy and ecstatic to announce that today marks the release of my new book baby, Do Not Forget Australia, published by Walker Books and illustrated by the extraordinarily talented Sonia Kretchsmar.

 I was lucky enough to speak at the Perth Writer’s Festival on the weekend, and got the chance to share Do Not Forget Australia with people there. You can see just how happy I am about the book!

To celebrate the new release, I am off on a blog tour over the next couple of weeks. I will be visiting lots of different blogs to talk about the book, where the idea for it came from, how I wrote it, and more. Sonia will also be talking about her own role.

The tour starts today at the blog of my lovely friend Claire Saxby. I am so happy to start the tour there and to talk about friends, because this is a story about friendship, and it is fitting that I start the tour on such a wonderful friend’s blog. The rest of the tour will visit the following blogs:
 

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I do hope you’ll enjoy reading about the little school in France that inspired this story.

Now I’m popping the cyberbubbly. Here’s cheers to good friends, and to  new books.

Have a great day!

5 Cool Things About Hosting a Blog Tour

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1. 1. Visitors. Who doesn’t love visitors? An excuse to mix with someone who you maybe you haven’t seen for a while, or who you just love to spend time with. Blog visitors are the same – someone who you maybe haven’t even met in real life, but who you have connected with in some way online, drops into your blog to chat about writing, or life, or whatever. Fun.
2.      2. Content. Having someone drop into your blog is a chance for some fresh new content. Maybe the visiting blogger knows something you don’t, or maybe they can say it better, or even just differently, than you would. 
3.     3.   Celebrations. Most of my visiting bloggers come because they have something to celebrate – most often the launch of a new book. Having them visiting my blog brings the party here. How cool.
4.     4.  Education. Okay, maybe this one overlaps with number two above, but it bears saying. Having a visitor to your blog for a guest blog post of an interview is a good chance to learn something – and/or for your readers to learn something. 
5.     5.   Sharing the Love. When you host someone on your blog, you are showing them you care, by giving them an opportunity to tell you, and your readers, all about themselves. And, in turn, having them here cana lso bring new visitors, as the visitor tells his/her own followers about his visit and invites them to visit.
See, it’s all win-win. And I’m excited because, although I’ve not had any blog visitors for a little while,  Aussie author  Ian Irvine is popping in on Saturday to talk all about the glamorous life of a writer. I can’t wait. And, if you’d like to be the next in line for a visit, let me know.

Snowy’s Blog Tour: The Rerun Part 11

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Tomorrow is a special day – December 1, the start of Advent, and officially time to start preparing for Christmas. Yippee!  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I LOVE Christmas. But of course, I’ve been a bit naughty (shhhh – don’t tell Santa) and have been celebrating Christmas for the past 11 days here on this blog, and elsewhere. My excuse is a good one -I’ve been celebrating not just Christmas in general, but also the release of my Christmas book, Snowy’s Christmas  in paperback.

But all good parties – and all series repeats – must come to an end, and today marks the final stop in my rerun blog tour. Today I take you back to the final stop in last year’s blog tour, and a post which brought joyful, Christmassy tears to my eyes. My delightful friend Mabel, took Snowy to a school near her, and this blog post is the result.

Awww – isn’t that just lovely?

Thank you so much for joining me on this trip down memory lane, this Christmas party and this celebration of Snowy’s Christmas paperback release. Remember, if you want a lovely Aussie Christmas gift for a child in your life, the book is available in brick and mortar stores, as well as online.

Merry Christmas!

Snowy’s Blog Tour: The Rerun Part 10

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Snowy the little white rooooooo, had a very shiny coat… (to the tune of Rudolph the Rednose reindeer).

Yes, I know, I am singing (badly) again. But I can’t help it – because, as I’ve said before, I LOVE Christmas, and I’m busily celebrating the release of Snowy’s Christmas in paperback. Today, the second last day of my rerun blog tour, I’m taking you back to  one of the most fun stops of last year’s blog tour – when Snowy himself visited the Aussie Christmas blog to talk about what it’s like to be Santa’s helper AND the star of a book. Snowy always manages to make me smile – hopefully he’ll make you feel the same.

See you tomorrow for the final day in my rerun tour.

Snowy’s Blog Tour: The Rerun Part 9

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Great. You made it in past all my Christmas lights and rogue tinsel. I may have got a little carried away with the Christmas decorations. I LOVE Christmas!

Anyway, welcome back – or, if this is your first time here, just plain welcome. I’m in the midst of celebrating the paperback release of Snowy’s Christmas by revisiting last year’s blog tour.  Today I’d like to take you back to week 9 of last year’s tour, where I visited with the wonderful Sandy Fussell and chatted about writing an Australian Christmas tale.  Enjoy – and  drop back tomorrow for episode 10.

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