I’ve been running my book review blog ‘Alpha Reader’ since 2009? If you want further proof that I’m an open book, it’s a running-catalogue of my “solo book club” of bookish thoughts
I wrote FanFiction from age 15 to 22 and it was how I found a way to my own voice and the stories that mattered to me. My longest FF piece ran to 184,402-words, with 112 chapters. Twenty-four stories amounted to 391, 522 words all up. I wrote FanFic steadily from 2002 to 2009 for Buffy, Once & Again, Mercy Thompson and Twilight especially. Hey! – were you Team Jacob or Team Edward? Because I was *big* into the FanFiction writing community for a time there …
– Refugees and asylum-seeker issues, and Australians becoming a more tolerant society Haven’t I seen you before? – ‘Teens to the Front’ – young adult literature for young adults – Supporting Australia’s national youth literature and advancing our national culture generally – All representations of family in fiction – Student activism and young people finding their community conscience Harper Collins Publishers and Hachette Australia.īegin, End, Begin is available through ‘Harper 360’ in the United States! 3 in ABC Book Club’s ‘Five of the Best’ 2017, their finale show.īegin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology also won the 2018 ABIA for Book of the Year in the Young Adult category. What have been the highlights of your career?īegin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology was voted No. – Child activists children finding their own voice on political and societal matters, and given my background with journalism – children engaging with the News and unfolding events is a big factor too. – Family and different amalgamations thereof – I’ve written about families that teens create for themselves with their friendships, adopted and non-nuclear families, the role grandparents play in raising children etc. Now I’m a full-time literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management, and an author in my own right. Throughout high-school and university I worked in a post-office! And after studying journalism at Monash and writing & editing at RMIT, I became a book-publicist for a number of independent Melbourne publishers. My first-ever job was working in a bookshop. Where were you born?įrankston, Victoria What other jobs have you had? She is a passionate ‘youth literature advocate’ who champions Australia’s national youth literature and writes compelling contemporary stories for young people. Danielle Binks Author, Personal Development, Social Issuesĭanielle Binks is a literary agent and author of middle-grade and young-adult fiction books.
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