JM Donellan

Category: writing

  • Birthday letter to the queen by Jake Marshall Dunhill, grade 2

    Dear the Queen, How are you? Are you having a good birthday? How is it being old? Do you like it? Do you want to get even more older or just stay the same amount of old? Have you been old ever since you were little, or did you just get old recently? Do you…

  • UNINSPIRATIONAL QUOTES EPISODE #3

    "The most urgent health problem in the developed world is obesity. The most urgent health problem in the developing world is starvation."   "Either you motherfuckers need to start sharing those cheeseburgers or I am going to have to try and get Madonna to adopt me. Do you really want to live with that on…

  •   I'm in the latest edition of The Big Issue Australia, out today! If you buy it, you'll be supporting the homeless and literally making the world a better place, whereas if you buy A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India you'll just be supporting some jerk who writes 300 page lies for a living.

  • UNINSPIRATIONAL QUOTES EPISODE 2

    "No matter how good you are at your job, there will always be someone much less talented than you making a lot more money." This might seem like  cop out statement for an artist, but I feel it's never a bad idea to reiterate just how terrible the taste of the general public is. Just…

  •        I've temporarily adopted my disguise as a full-time worker in order to vanquish the debt demons and stock up on mi-goreng to get me through writing the next book. Don't worry though, I'll still be the same cynical hermit with mildly alcoholic tendencies. In the meantime I'll be appearing as part of Black Cat…

  • CHARLES DARWIN VS 99 BOTTLES OF BEER

    "Yeah, ah, gimmie…white russian, heavy on the Russian. Oh man, I need a kebab…HOLY CRAP I love this friggin' song! Wit my mind on my money and my money on my…Yo! Alexander that chick was sooooo checking you out…" This story has been lurking on my hard drive for a while, so I thought I'd…

  • How to Turn Your Child Into a ninja-scientist-guitar-soloing-human rights champion in one easy step.

    Last week I finished my first ever children’s novel, Zeb and the Great Ruckus. I don't want to give too much of the story away, but I can tell you it will feature the following:   This is a story for parents who aren’t white picket fence upper middle class starbucks and sunday paper trim…

  • 'Dying in India' got a pretty top notch review in this week's Rave magazine if I do say so myself. And I do, because I'm a writer, I say stuff, that's my frigging JOB. http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/18423/192/

  • THIS IS THE EIGHTH OR NINTH WORST THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY EVER HAPPEN.

      A bad thing happened last week. One of the worst things that can happen, actually. Well, almost. If you wrote a list of the 100 worst things you could possibly imagine occurring with ‘stepping on a thumbtack’ at the bottom and 'nuclear holocaust' or 'waking up next to Kochie'  at the absolute top, then this…

  • 10 of the Best Books Set in India (with its Multitudinous Mysteries)

    Here's a list of books about/set in India I did for Flashlight Worthy books. I hope you enjoy it, but no so much that it inspires you to write your own novel because lord only knows I don't need the competition: http://www.flashlightworthybooks.com/Best-Books-About-India/583