​Welcome to another entry into my YA Author Interview series for 2019!


I am so very excited to have the lovely Helen Scheuerer here for an interview for the SECOND time, to celebrate the upcoming release of her final novel within her fantastic YA fantasy series, the Oremere Chronicles!

I am a big fan of this #LoveOzYA fantasy series, and I definitely recommend it!!

I hope you enjoy reading Helen's answers to my questions as much as I did! :)

Being shortlisted for the Readings 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize has just been so amazing!  Every time I think about I feel so excited, and to be honest the whole thing has been very unexpected!
I feel really proud of it :)

As part of the shortlist, I got the opportunity to write a guest blog post for the Readings blog, WHICH YOU CAN READ HERE, where I talked about some of the themes behind the book and how anime really influenced me when I was writing.

I hope you enjoy reading it! :)

So..... 2019 is shaping up into quite a freaking awesome year for me!
I will be honest, the last bunch of years for me have been quite a struggle. My mum died and since then things have been hard. On top of everything else that was going on, was that I wanted to be a published author very badly but nothing was happening.
But I feel like things are finally shifting for me, and that has been a complete relief. It is nice to feel like life is moving again, that I am feeling happy!

In 2019, my very first book came out, Making Friends with Alice Dyson, and it was shortlisted for the Readings 2019 YA Book Prize (so amazing!) and I was also recently awarded a residency to spend a whole week writing at Varuna!!!!

And now, I have also signed a contract with the lovely people at Wakefield Press for my second YA novel, Taking Down Evelyn Tait!

I am so excited to bring this story out into the world in 2020, and also so grateful that life has been so kind to me lately! 
My biggest takeaway from all this is that persistence is more important than talent, and hard work pays off!! :)
Don't give up!
:)

I was really excited to be interviewed by Shelley Carter for her Underground Writers Author Interviews series!!

FOLLOW THIS LINK to check it out! :)

Thanks so much for having me Shelley! :)
I really enjoyed answering these ones!

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I had the opportunity to be interviewed by The Wheeler Centre recently, which was really cool!

If you'd like to read it, you can find it by FOLLOWING THIS LINK!

They asked me lots of really interesting questions! :)

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I am just SO CRAZY EXCITED to have been awarded the opportunity to spend a whole week in Varuna later in the year to work on a new manuscript!!

Thank you so very much Varuna and Writers SA!! 
I feel just so excited lately, like all the good things are happening to me :)

To announce the Varuna Residency, Writers SA did an interview with me, WHICH YOU CAN READ HERE!

I live in Adelaide, which has a really cool and thriving YA author community!! I was very excited to be interviewed by the lovely (also Adelaide based) YA author, Margot McGovern (Neverland) for her excellent book blog: Lectito.

Margot asked me lots of really interesting questions about my story so I found these really fun to answer.

If you'd like to check the interview out, FOLLOW THIS LINK TO LECTITO.


Also, make sure you sick around to check out Margot's other interviews and articles on her blog, it is a really interesting and fun place :)

INTERVIEW ABOUT MY BOOK LAUNCH!


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This is really fun one for me, as S.J Morgan is not only an amazing YA writer but is also a close friend! 
This is the second time she has interviewed me for her blog, which is pretty cool.
The first time was about my pre-publication expectations and nerves, and this one was about the book launch and how it feels being finally published!

I had a lot of fun chatting with Sue, and you can check out the interview BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK.

I hope you enjoy reading it! :)