WIZ (Thomas Nelson Voyages, 1994) guessing - easy read
WOLFMASTER (Shortland, 2001) fantasy / family /historical / animals / adventure/ primary
WRITING GUIDE SERIES.
CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISATION (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
CREATING AND NAMING FANTASY SETTINGS ( paperback or PDF)
DIALOGUE (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
IDEAS TO GO (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
PLOTS AND PLOTTING (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
20 TOP TIPS AND UNWRITTEN RULES (self published - paperback or PDF. Writing resource.)
WRITING A PICTURE BOOK TEXT (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
WRITING METRICAL VERSE (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
WRITING WITH STYLE (Self published how-to writing guide. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2008.
(GIVING OUR KIDS) A REASON TO WRITE. (Self published handbook for parents and teachers. Available as a paperback or PDF) 2009. + 13 TITLES IN THE MAY GIBBS SERIES
+ 9 TITLES IN THE OLYMPIC MASCOT SERIES (Millie's Auntie Spike, Millie and the Horses, Millie and the Stopped Watch, Olly and Kookoo, Olly Says 'Day, Olly and the Long Way Home, Syd and the Bad Example, Sud and the Lucky Stone, Syd goes to Platypus Rock.)
+ 8 TITLES IN THE SKIPPY SERIES (The Firefighter Fiasco etc, Skippy and the Curse of the Blue Diamond, Skippy and the First Crocodile on the Moon, Skippy and the Underwater Sabotage etc.)
+ 3 NOVELISATIONS (Skippy and the Bird Smugglers and Dangerous Ride and Blinky Bill)
+ AN UNCERTAIN NUMBER IN THE BLINKY SERIES... (over 25). (Blinky Bill's Pet, Blinky breaks the Drought, Blinky on Stage, Blinky and the lost Puppy, Eggcitement for Blinky, Blinky Bill Remembers Nutsy's Birthday, Blinky Bill and the Naughty Little Owls, Blinky Bill and the Sporty Little Frogs, Blinky Bill and the Magic Show, Blinky Bill and the Sad Crocodile, Blinky Bill and the Big Bad Bunyip, etc.)
What genre/s would you like to write in?: I enjoy writing in the fantasy, science fiction and romance genres.
Please share with us who or what encourages you to write and why?: I have been encouraged to write by many people, beginning with my birth family. Fortunately, editors and readers also encourage me by publishing my books and by buying them.
How long did it take for you to write your book/s?: So far, it has taken me 37 years to write my published titles.
How long did it take for you to publish your book/s?: I wrote my first book when I was twelve. By the time I was sixteen, I have written five books. The fifth was published.
Who did you publish with and why?: I have published with multiple publishers. A handful of my books are self-published. In every other case I published with the specific publishers because they were the ones who commissioned or contracted my books.
Please share with us how you prefer to market your book/s?: I market manuscripts by sending them to a target publisher. Once they are published, they are almost always marketed by the publishers. I make information on my titles available on my websites and on FaceBook and my blogs.
Please share with us any event/s that you have planned in marketing your book/s: Since my contaracts mostly prohibit me from selling my books, most of my "marketing" is targeted at making my titles visible to the reading public. I list my publications on my websites and in blogs, and occasionally take some of the self-published books to conferences and author days. I have found this fairly useless from a marketing point of view, because the people who attend these events are authors themselves. I enjoy meeting them, but I end up buying far more books than I sell. However, I take display copies of my commercially published books. My husband and I also have car magnets, fridge magnets and business cards to advertise our jointly-written series.
Do you wish to share any additional information with our readers?: I have been writing for most of my life, and editing and assessing manuscripts for many years. I try to publicise writing and books in general as well as my own titles. However, because I write for a living, I expect the books to support ME, not the other way round. I cannot and will not spend more on promoting a book than I will ever earn from sales. My self-published titles are divided into two groups. One group derives from my "how to" workshops. I wrote these when I discovered many of the authors whose work I assessed made the same errors. Because I was writing much the same advice several times a month, I marshalled it into handy e-book form. These e-books are also available as paperbacks. The other group consists of favourite novels or stories that my usual publishers, for one reason or another, have not contracted. They include two of my all-time favourites of my own works.
Email to share: sodgers@iinet.net.au
Candle Iron Sally Odgers Castle Torm is under seige, its inhabitants held by a powerful spellbinder determined to gain control of the castle. Allyso, the young heir, must trust her instincts and follow her heart in order to save herself, and her people, from complete destruction.
The poems in this collection include ballads and acrostics, and quite a few songs with refrains. What they don't include is free verse or any of the strict syllabic forms. The style used might be called retro-Victorian metrical verse, but don't let that trouble you. These pieces were conceived from a fascination with the worlds of fantasy and a joy in the music of the English language. Despite, or perhaps because of, their subject matter, they are not intended for younger readers. About the Poet Sally Odgers has been writing verse for forty years. Several of her poems have been published in collections and anthologies from mainstream publishers in Australia and the UK, and she has produced a handful of rhyming picture books as well as a how-to book called Writing Metrical Verse. Sally is a full time writer. Excerpt I hope you have enjoyed your journey through my patterns of magic and rhyme. The pieces you have read draw on many traditions, and I have picked and chosen those which suit my purpose. In many cases, I have made up my own traditions. I need hardly add (I hope!) that none of the spells or charms in the Witchsight section is anything but a pinch of fancy. Candles, water and flowers have been used in an attempt to cast spells in the past, but I have never researched the exact ingredients. I have never seen a ghost, met a unicorn, or expected to marry a fairy. but I acknowledge the power and strength of their traditions, and thoroughly enjoyed inventing my own. My poetry, like my characters, owes something to many old traditions, and something to my own invention. Apart from the acrostics, none of the pieces is written in any strict or set poetical form. The influences, as you can probably tell, come mostly from the 19th Century, with a nod towards the earlier forms of Modern English in Tudor times.
Four generations of women, linked by blood, parted by fate. Eva Kawolska - the Polish war widow. Eva escapes the devastation of occupied Poland and brings her child to the promised land of Australia. Terenza Rhodes - the deserted child. Raped by her uncle, Terenza flees her home town and journeys across Australia during the heady days of rock 'n' roll. Emma West - the good girl. Brought up to believe herself an orphan, Emma is shocked to discover her mother may still be alive. Philippa Freedom Darcy - the lucky one. The legal barriers are down. But can she mend the links and reunite her family
"Fire cannot burn me, I need not eat, nor drink, nor shave my beard, nor do any other of the things that mark a man as mortal. What else would you be calling me, save a ghost?" Flynn O'Connor has been waiting for his sweetheart for a very long time. When Annabel tumbles into his life, Flynn is cautious and concerned. Is she a woman of flesh and blood or a woman of the Sidhe sent to win him away from his devotion to Eliza? The things Annabel tells him make no sense at first, but finally he comes to accept the agonising truth. Now he has two loves. Must both be stolen by the enemy, Time?
A love song, a mystery, a waltz through history. Aelfthryth and Harry were born in 11th Century Kent, so what are they doing in Sydney a thousand years later? Two girls in a locked room. One schnauzer dog desperate to find them. They all have secrets...
Spinning Pearls-Fantasy Poetry The darkness has always fascinated humankind. From it, we have conjured countless creatures, as unchancy as the fairies. In this tour, you will meet some of those beings of the darkness and dawn. They dwell in silent places, just beyond the bounds of sight. Just sometimes you might be aware of them, out of the corner of a disbelieving eye.
Trump the dog lives with her owner Dr. Jeanie behind the Pet Vet clinic. It is Trump s job to help the sick animals and Trump s dog senses are so acute she often draws conclusions before the humans have even begun to think! Trump tells the stories of the animal patients and their families and provides young readers with animal tips, vocabulary words, and a new understanding of the animal world. All the patients are interesting, but some are more interesting than others...
Someone is out to kill Corrie. Athen Bard offers to help her, but why does he look so much like her disabled brother, Ethan? Why does everybody but Athen despise her? If Corrie is to survive, she needs to solve the mysteries, fast.
Athen Bard is amazed to meet a strange girl who looks just like his dead sister, Corrayo. In the world of Sisterin, women rule and men are unimportant. How can Athen deal with a girl who says she comes from another world?
Wilderness is where you find it. Miriam Moses fights her own private wilderness by running for her life. Along the way, she encounters many characters, all engaged in their own pains and problems. Death, blood, tears and betrayal are rife, but even the darkest life is lit by hope. From each encounter, Miriam takes what she needs and discards the rest, but no one who meets her will ever be the same again. Especially Harry Mercury. Wilderness is where you find it. Life is what you make it. And Miriam Moses is running for her life.
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