On January 20 of this year, Steph Bowe passed away at the age of twenty-five. She had lymphoma. It’s always tempting to describe illness as a war – ‘the battle with cancer’ – but struggling with terminal illness is just that, a daily struggle. Steph described a lot of it on her Facebook page, and […]
#LoveOzYAbookclub – October 2020 author tribute: STEPH BOWE (Night Swimming) Read More »
Hello to all of you out there in the world 🙂 We’re getting closer to the end of the year, and have now entered the spooky month: it’s Spring in the south-eastern part of Australia, and Autumn in the northern part of the globe, but it’s Halloween season all over. All Hallow’s Eve is a
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Hello! Welcome to our Author Interview with ALICIA JACINSKA, author of this month’s title The Dark Tide. Read on to find out some of the inspirations and ideas for this great new LoveOzYA debut… Where did you get the idea for “The Dark Tide”? I was inspired by so many things! But I got the
#LoveOZYAbookclub September 2020 author interview – ALICIA JACINSKA (The Dark Tide) Read More »
Hello to everyone, and welcome to Spring! We are so excited to announce our September 2020 title for #LoveOZYAbookclub will be THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka. The Wicked Deep meets A Curse So Dark and Lonely in this gripping, dark fairy-tale fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island
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Hello again, and welcome to our August 2020 author interview with PM Freestone, the author of our fantastic title for this month, SHADOWSCENT: The Darkest Bloom! SHADOWSCENT is a unique take on YA fantasy, with a glorious danger-filled world and an entire magic system built on scents and perfume. But how did PM Freestone put
#LoveOzYAbookclub – August 2020 author Interview: P.M. FREESTONE (Shadowscent) Read More »
Hi bookclubbers, and welcome to August! This month we’re reading a title from an Australian author based in the UK – P.M. Freestone. Her book SHADOWSCENT (the first in a duology) is a unique fantasy story in which perfume and scent-magic play a key role… “In the empire of Aramtesh, scent has power. When disaster
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Hi everyone, welcome back for our July 2020 author interview with Kay Kerr for her awesome book PLEASE DON’T HUG ME . What gave you the idea to set “Please Don’t Hug Me” in the last months of High School? I think I’d always looked back at the end of Year 12 as one of
#LoveOZYAbookclub July 2020 Author Interview: KAY KERR (Please Don’t Hug Me) Read More »
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#LoveOzYAbookclub June 2020 author interview: SARAH EPSTEIN (Deep Water) Read More »
Is it just me, or did May seem to take *forever*? (and also go really fast?) Weird time is something we’re all becoming familiar with over the course of this exceedingly weird year… I guess we’re all slowly getting used to it! But what if time – and relationships, and people – start getting weird
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