People have been asking me how to get to be an extra in Nim's Island, but I'm afraid I honestly don't know. Everything to do with the production side of things is right out of my influence - and my understanding! In fact everything I know about extras is what I learned on Extras, the Ricky Gervais TV show...
Yes, it's true that I'm going to be one (along with my husband, and the book's illustrator, my friend Kerry Millard) but that was a slightly different route. In fact I guess that route started when I started writing the book nine years ago.
Sorry, guys...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
Christmas in July
Bronwen and Katherine of Show and Tell had a 'Christmas in July' party at Books Illustrated Gallery last Thursday; what a great evening (topped off with Graham Davey as Santa distributing rather lovely chocolates!)
I came home thinking about how lucky I am to be a children's author, because you simply couldn't belong to a nicer bunch of people than were gathered in the Anns' lovely gallery. There were old friends I wanted to chat longer to, people I hadn't met before and clicked with immediately, and people I didn't get a chance to meet who looked like interesting, fun people to meet another time. We don't go up to the city that often, but when we do I come home stimulated and vowing to go up more regularly in the future.
And of course, whenever I managed to glimpse it behind the crowd of talkative authors, there was the art: the picture book illustrations for which the bookshop gallery is named. They were something else I'd have liked longer to study, especially two of Kerry Millard's originals for Quincy and Oscar, which I saw in roughs years ago.
I came home thinking about how lucky I am to be a children's author, because you simply couldn't belong to a nicer bunch of people than were gathered in the Anns' lovely gallery. There were old friends I wanted to chat longer to, people I hadn't met before and clicked with immediately, and people I didn't get a chance to meet who looked like interesting, fun people to meet another time. We don't go up to the city that often, but when we do I come home stimulated and vowing to go up more regularly in the future.
And of course, whenever I managed to glimpse it behind the crowd of talkative authors, there was the art: the picture book illustrations for which the bookshop gallery is named. They were something else I'd have liked longer to study, especially two of Kerry Millard's originals for Quincy and Oscar, which I saw in roughs years ago.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Nim at Sea Launch Speech
Well, this is what I'd intended to say at the Brisbane Nim at Sea launch... until the evening ensured a few unexpected changes!
orrwen - Nim at Sea Launch Speech
orrwen - Nim at Sea Launch Speech
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Nim at Sea Launch
What can I say? This was a fun and eventful evening, but not quite what we'd planned. Paula Mazur was going to launch it and we were both quite excited about that. The Nim journey has been long, eventful and often emotional, and I dedicated the book to Paula because it was the journey that brought the characters to life for me all over again, so that I had to find out what happened next. When I realised that she would be in Australia when the book was released, we both thought this seemed a wonderful opportunity to not only launch the book but celebrate the journey so far.It was especially wonderful as we would have not only her family out from LA, but my daughter home from Vancouver, as well all my husband's Queensland relatives. (My son was home in Melbourne, but at least he'll get other chances to meet everyone.)
However journeys, and 'at sea' turned out to be even more relevant than we'd planned. I turned up at Riverbend Books shortly after 5:00 pm, as I was being interviewed before the 6:30 launch. My phone rang immediately; Paula, with Mark and Jen, had been out in a boat scouting locations and was now stuck on a sandbar. They'd called a rescue boat and should still make it fine, just a bit muddier than planned. Another phoned call: a while later... no sign of a rescue boat, but surely they'd get there, just a bit late. Next phone call a bit more despairing, but wait! A boat was approaching, with Rescue on it - all would be well.
Half an hour later came the next phone call: the rescue boat had also run aground, and the two boats were now pontooned together, waiting for another rescue boat. They finally got off about 8 pm.
Meanwhile, Murray Pope, a producer of Animalia, and long time friend of Paula's and supporter of Nim's, was coming to the launch as a guest - so he gallantly stepped in and launched it for Paula. Then, about halfway through my (slightly changed) speech, Paula's family came jogging up the ramp to Riverbend's deck; I introduced them, and her daughter took the mike and told the story of Paula finding the book in the library four years ago.
"You choreographed this, didn't you?" someone in the audience said - and really, if I had, the only thing that would have made it perfect would have been for Paula, Mark and Jen to have all turned up as I finished the reading. Well, we'll just have to have another celebration sometime.
However journeys, and 'at sea' turned out to be even more relevant than we'd planned. I turned up at Riverbend Books shortly after 5:00 pm, as I was being interviewed before the 6:30 launch. My phone rang immediately; Paula, with Mark and Jen, had been out in a boat scouting locations and was now stuck on a sandbar. They'd called a rescue boat and should still make it fine, just a bit muddier than planned. Another phoned call: a while later... no sign of a rescue boat, but surely they'd get there, just a bit late. Next phone call a bit more despairing, but wait! A boat was approaching, with Rescue on it - all would be well.
Half an hour later came the next phone call: the rescue boat had also run aground, and the two boats were now pontooned together, waiting for another rescue boat. They finally got off about 8 pm.
Meanwhile, Murray Pope, a producer of Animalia, and long time friend of Paula's and supporter of Nim's, was coming to the launch as a guest - so he gallantly stepped in and launched it for Paula. Then, about halfway through my (slightly changed) speech, Paula's family came jogging up the ramp to Riverbend's deck; I introduced them, and her daughter took the mike and told the story of Paula finding the book in the library four years ago.
"You choreographed this, didn't you?" someone in the audience said - and really, if I had, the only thing that would have made it perfect would have been for Paula, Mark and Jen to have all turned up as I finished the reading. Well, we'll just have to have another celebration sometime.
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