Good morning! It is a grey winter day down here in Melbourne but the camillia bush outside the window where I write has just opened out three very beautiful pink flowers, and the gum across the road is also in bloom, so what is there to complain about?
It's great to be part of the Book Rap again this year. I'm enormously relieved that it's off to a slow start because I am up to my eyeballs in writing work at the moment. Boori and I are bringing two books out in the first half of next year.
The first to be published will be Nunjul the Sun, the story of the boy in The Binna Binna Man when he is at least two years older and off to Sydney to visit his flash Uncle Garth and spunky Aunty Emma!
The second to be published is a book called Flytrap which is for primary school readers.
The complicating fact is that I have finished Flytrap but am only half way through Nunjul the Sun and the photographs are yet to be taken.
So, I look forward to rapping with the rappers this week and in between times I'll be flat out on Nunjul the Sun. Any special requests for additions to the story are welcome at this stage! One school I spoke at recently was very keen that the boy catches up with Jody Butler.
Hope all goes well. Cheers to all the rappers. A special hello to that brave solo rapper, Ebonie Sippel. I was excited to hear that you are from Queensland. I was born out west of you at a place called St George. I still call it home and think of myself as a Queenslander.
With love
Meme
P.S. Boori phoned me last night from Adelaide River. He was tucked up in his hotel room feeling a little uneasy about the crocodiles. This is his first visit to the Northern Territory and he's very excited.
