Author: Josh
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Growing pains.
What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid? Astronaut? Breakdancer? Ninja? I wanted to be a writer, and I got that, so yay me. But I also wanted to own a jetpack and be best friends with Michael Jordan. I’m sad to say my current mode of…
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A story, an experiment.
I’d like you to be part of an experiment please. Don’t worry, it’s not one of those crazy ones where they inject you with an unstable chemical compound or see what happens when you mix human and reptile DNA or anything like that. Anyone who’s ever read sci-fi knows that’s never a good idea. Unless…
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Love Letter To Brisbane pt 1: Books & Bars
Listen, here’s the thing; I love this city, and feel like a lot of people overlook the good things in their own cities and spend too much time complaining about the traffic and such. So I’m going to put together a couple of posts celebrating some of my favourite things about Brisbane, starting with this…
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4C arts collective: Thank you and goodnight.
Listen, internet. Sometimes good things happen. Sometimes these things last a day, or week, or a few years or even longer still. Sometimes they last for too long, sometimes for not long enough and sometimes just the right amount. When the things in question end you basically have three options; be sad that…
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Vandal Newman
My Dearest BCC, I am writing to commend you on your extremely well thought out allocation of 13.5 million dollars to the anti-graffiti campaign. Although I must say, whilst I was overjoyed that such a vast sum is allocated to the aggressive removal of the inexplicably pandemic desire for human beings to express themselves creatively,…
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Book giveaway
Dena over at Books for for Kids (who recently wrote this great review of Zeb) is running a giveaway where you can get your hands…ah…well, eyes at least, on a digital copy of Zeb and the Great Ruckus. Entry is freebies. Check it out here. In other book news, one of the highlights of my…
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On the making of monsters.
Recently I helped out EarthCheck with designing some fictional characters to help teach kids about caring for the environment. We developed four names for each character and then ran a poll on social media to choose the winning moniker. There’s an article about it here, it’s a great project that’s going to work with…
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7 Best Writing Albums
It’s often said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, which always just makes me think “Yeah, I want to see more dances about architecture!” However, speaking in my capacity as a sometime musician, occasional music journalist, part time radio DJ and all the time lovably cantankerous author, I thought I’d share a few of…
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The Next Big Thing
I was selected by my friend Rebecca Bloomer to be part of this blog chain called The Next Big Thing, where authors pick some of their friends and favourites to talk about upcoming works. Thanks to Rebecca for the nomination, I have in turn nominated Mandy Beaumont and Daniel Wynne. 1) What is the working title of…
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IT’S THE INAUGURAL SUPER MAGICAL XMAS TIME EXPLOSIONS AND FUNTIMES SALE!!!
Zeb is just $9.95 (+p&h) between now and the arrival of the fat guy in the red suit. INCLUDES FREE IMAGINARY FRIEND & AIR GUITAR AND THIS MANY EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Australia only) Serving suggestions: