Literally Hilarious brings together family-oriented stories for the junior fiction market with a percentage of proceeds going to the amazing Indigenous Literacy Foundation who work with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities across Australia
This project is supported by so many visionary folks and wonderful authors and illustrators. Special thanks and shout outs to: Daisy Lane Seeds, Debra Tidball, Rose Ahearn, Adam Wallace, Jeremy Kalbstein and Romi Sharp. #justwriteforkidsaustralia
I’m excited to be back at Clunes this year! If you’re an aspiring author of children’s fiction, and gaining an understanding of how to navigate the path to publication is on your 2025 bucket list, head to Clunes Booktown Festival and make that tick!
Alongside award-winning authors Andrea Rowe and Emma Bowd, I’m co-facilitating a workshop that delivers insights into the different (and unique) routes to trade publication. We’ll be covering all KidLit readerships from board books, picture books, junior fiction, middle grade through to young adult works.
You’ll benefit from our shared experiences of navigating publishing pathways – from slush submissions to pitching, marketing, and networking, offering an honest and educational ‘peek behind the curtain’ of submissions and acceptance.
We’re going to have a whole lot of fun along the way, and you’ll ramp up the equipment in your writer’s toolkit with an in-house exercise that will change the way you think about yourself as a writer, and take home resources you’ll turn and return to as you look to the future with a professional and positive mindset.
Signed books will be available all weekend from the wonderful Readings who have been a proud part of Melbourne’s literary landscape since the first store opened in Carlton in 1969.
Come for the day, or stay for the whole weekend! Clunes Booktown Festival is the most wonderful way to indulge your love of books browsing the extensive array of independent booksellers while attending author talks, panels and workshops, all set against a town straight out of a story setting: historic Clunes set in a valley surrounded by extinct volcanoes where echoes of our Gold Rush days can be heard down it’s architecturally-exciting streets!
The cat’s out of the bag! My new junior fiction novel, ‘Skippy Blackfeet’ is heading to Melbourne for a Sunday, March 16 launch at Readings Kids, Carlton Bookstore, and I’m feline super excited!
Readings have been such pawsome supporters of my work, and I’m thrilled to have them as my launch host. I’m doubly thrilled that the meowvelous Andrea Rowe Writer, another wonderful supporter of my work and a paw-sitive champion of children’s literature, will once again be my launch top cat!
An engaging junior fiction novel by Australian author, Rebecca Fraser
That’s enough cat puns from me! Bookings are open now for RSVPS. I’ll have more launch information in the New Year, but in the meantime, pounce onto those calendars, and save the date.
I’m super excited to be part of the inaugural Western Port Writes Literary Festival. The Festival will run from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 September 2024 and celebrates creativity and the art of story.
The program will feature everything from author panels, in-conversations, interviews and readings to collaborative community events.
I’ve been sitting on this news for a little while, but now I’m super excited to announce I’ve got a new book coming out with Wombat Books.
‘Skippy Blackfeet’ is a junior fiction novel that introduces readers to Skippy Blackfeet – a very little cat with a very big heart – and how two lives change for the better when he meets a young girl called May. The story is told through Skippy’s point of view, and will appeal to anyone who’s ever questioned their place in the world.
This will be an illustrated work, and I’m so excited to have the talent of Jennifer Horn breathing life, movement, and whimsy into this story.
Will keep you posted on further news / release date. in the meantime, I can’t wait to share Skippy Blackfeet with readers, I’ve come to really love this little black cat!
I’m thrilled to announce my middle grade novel ‘Sea Glass’ has been signed by long-established Australian publishing legends, Wombat Books.
Here’s what you can expect…
When eleven-year-old Cailin’s mother takes a contract job on Victoria’s eastern coast, Cailin’s holiday plans are ruined. Worse, they’re staying at her estranged grandfather’s shack at Whitefoam Cove. Cailin barely remembers him, let alone knows him.
Grandpa doesn’t have Wi-Fi, and his television is older than him. Memories of her father are everywhere and, to make matters worse, she’s left her cricket bat at home. How will she make the team now? And how will she keep in touch with her best friend, Josie? It’s going to be the worst summer ever.
But life with Grandpa proves to be anything but boring. There’s treasure to be found at Whitefoam Cove! But just when cricket-mad Cailin and Grandpa finally feel like they’re making a connection, disaster strikes…and Cailin knows it’s all her fault.
Sea Glass is a coming-of-age family drama for readers aged 7-12 that explores how, despite difference and disaster, a generational gap is bridged. This contemporary Australian middle grade novel celebrates the importance of family and environment…and proves you’re never too old to go treasure hunting.
Sea Glass will be released 1 March, 2023. Click here to pre-orderyour copy.
