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Melissa Keil is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Melissa’s three Young Adult titles, Life in Outer Space...

Clayton Zane Comber is the author of two novels, Shooting Stars and 100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze. As well as writing, he has had...

Maura Pierlot is an award-winning playwright and author, whose works include short stories, poetry, microfiction and essays, published in...

It's a massive honour to be invited back as a judge in RSPCA Victoria's Pawsome Stories competition, alongside the amazing Andy Griffiths...

It’s always exciting when any kind of artist reveals an unseen talent. For me, it was particularly thrilling to learn that Dave Atze, the...

Karen Hendriks is a picture book author and teacher. Her first two books, Go Away, Foxy Foxy and Feathers have delighted readers and...

Kesta Fleming is the author of the Marlow Brown series, which currently features two extremely fun and informative stories about Marlow,...

Jane Smith is an author of historical fiction for children, as well as fiction and non-fiction for adults. Jane is also a librarian and...

Elizabeth Mary Cummings brings an incredible depth of experience to her writing. A teacher, author and mental health advocate,...

Having collaborated with illustrator extraordinaire Dave Atze on the Max Booth Future Sleuth series since 2017, I've been wanting to pick...

I’m really excited to welcome Gary Lonesborough to Book Chat. Gary is a Yuin author who grew up in Bega on the south coast of New South...

It's long past time that I gave a shout-out to one of my favourite podcasts, Words and Nerds, produced and hosted by incredibly...

Sayaka Murata’s tenth novel, Convenience Store Woman, is another not-so-new title that dug its claws into my head and demanded to be...

I'm really excited to welcome my latest guest to Book Chat – Allison Paterson. Allison is a writer, publishing consultant, book reviewer...

It's a great pleasure to welcome my latest guest to Book Chat – the incredibly talented and prolific Teena Raffa-Mulligan. Teena has...

Aunty Fay Muir (Boon Wurrung Elder and senior linguist at the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages) and Sue Lawson (prolific...

It's a great pleasure to introduce my latest Book Chat guest: author and former primary school teacher, Sandra Bennett. Sandra has a...

I'm really honoured to welcome my second-ever guest to the page: extremely prolific and respected picture book author, Robert Vescio....

It's a great thrill to welcome our first guest to the page: the multi-talented Megan Higginson. Megan is an author, illustrator, and very...

Penny Macoun’s debut picture storybook, Gorkle, imagines what it would be like if Cyber Space were a real place, where gremlins can...