He Said, She Said:

The Little Big Book Club
"This month we are featuring the hilarious My Dad Thinks He's Funny by the very talented Katrina Germein. Would love to hear some of your 'dad jokes' or funny dad stories. :)"

Ian Irvine
"The evil author in me likes these kinds of competitions: hardly any time to think up the questions or judge the answers, and the competitors have to do all the sweating, ha!"

Booktopia
"Confession: When the bottom of my bed broke I propped it up with a terrible book a friend gave me to read."

Rhyme Time
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Author of the Month May 2011

   “Rock music, girls, guys, bullying, life – that’s what I write.”

1) Susanne everything about you and everyone who speaks of you says passion, skill and an amazing ability to touch your audience flows from you. What is it about your position in the literary community that gives you such drive?

I love my community. My best friends are writers and illustrators. I love speaking to my audiences. I love the festivals, conferences, travelling to speak all over the world from remote aboriginal communities to the Burn Congress in New York. I am especially touched when I reach my readers. When I opened my new trailer for ‘Butterflies’ to be published in the USA in September, there was this message:-

This is truly an amazing book, so moving and inspiring. READ MORE

Author of the Month April 2011

  1) Have you always been a writer? Where did your passion begin?

I have always written – from as early as I can remember. I had my first
poem published at age 7 and I still have my grade 3 creative writing books,
all in softly faded pencil and resplendent with glittery stickers – the bigger
the sticker, the better your work and I so prized those stickers.

I think a passion for writing is innate – it is just part of you, and flows from you
even at the earliest of ages. I couldn’t imagine my life without it – it’s like oxygen.

2) Riley and the Sleeping Dragon: A journey around Beijing; the first of
the RileySeries was launched in 08 – 09, was it always your vision for
Riley to be a series?  READ MORE

Author of the Month March 2011

  1) Take us through your writing journey; I understand you were
  interested in writing at an early age.

I can’t really say I was interested in writing at an early age – not like some people
who can remember back to when they were 5. I was in Yr 7 when I first realised that
others were affected by my writing. (The older I get, the younger 12 sounds – so
maybe I was young. :P)

That said, from the age of 12 I was always going to be a teacher – and I still am
one day a week.

In Yr 10 I won my first national poetry competition. Huge surprise! A teacher at the
time had me autograph her copy of the school magazine (where the poems were
printed) and made the comment, ‘You’ll be famous one day.’ .. READ MORE