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Can you help me find a good book?
I love this question! As a school librarian, I love supporting teens' reading, but much to my cherubs’ eternal embarrassment, I don’t restrict that to my school library. I’ve been known to interject myself and a book in conversations in bookstores while there as an...
Championing Aussie Books – a mixed bag of genres
An award-winner, an ethical dilemma and a memoir walk into a bar… Here we go, another bundle of book reviews as I plow through my stash of reviews from last year’s reading. The Road to Freedom by Gabrielle Davis This was my first foray into YA fantasy since (I...
Lorena Otes: The Proust Questionnaire
Meet my fabulous friend Lorena, aka LollyLegs who I first got to know through the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize. We're in a mutual fan club, and not only did I cry when I read Lorena's endorsement of Summer, in Between I was thrilled to make her cry...
How I stay organised as a writer
In 2025, post lifequake, I had a business, I was finishing a Grad Dip in Information Management (Libraries), I launched a novel, I entered another in an unpublished manuscript prize (and took out second place!), wrote the second draft of a YA WIP, and wrote half of...
Camille Booker and The Proust Questionnaire
Here's one fact about Camille Booker: as one of the judges of the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize, she's one of the reasons my dream to be a published author came true! Beyond that, she's just an incredible human and a phenomenally clever author. Let's...
Championing Aussie Books – a laugh-out-loud swoon, a pearl clutching thriller and one just for fun
6 Australian book reviews featuring a romance that hit me in the feels, a thriller that hit me in the frights, a booktok sensation that’s so bad it’s not even good, and more
Smashing the confidence gap
A couple of years ago in the midst of the (nauseating) GirlBoss fever that swept across LI and IG like, well, a fever, I saw a fabulous post where somebody* completely (and rightfully) rejected the premise of imposter syndrome, pointing out it’s a flawed, debunked...
Casey Nott and The Proust Questionnaire
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The Pinch Me Moments: Six Months of Summer, in Between
It’s been six months since Summer, in Between, my award-winning YA novel officially hit bookshelves. It’s a cliche, but what a whirlwind, and what a rollercoaster! As I said to a friend, it’s surprisingly terrifying when a long held dream comes true. Writing the novel...
The Proust Questionnaire: as answered by me!
Have you heard about The Proust Questionnaire? I first came across it back in 2003 when I was completing my Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Literature. I was spellbound. It wasn’t created by Marcel Proust, the French novelist and essayist, but he is widely...