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Discover Laura Bloom’s blog for behind-the-scenes insights, personal notes, and updates from the acclaimed author of contemporary fiction.

I’m still missing you, Demetrius

‘I wonder what D would say about this?’ I think, as I open up the latest headlines about what’s going on in Washington Born

Jesse Blackadder and Australia’s small town cultural life

Jesse Blackadder, my co-creator on the ‘Dream Riders’ series of novels for young people – and principle author of Book Two in the series: Storm)

Why I Wrote “Mika and Max”

It makes me sad, and mad, that the first person with a disability who I ever got to know was my own baby! This is

A review of “Mika and Max” from Reading Time, the Children’s Book Council of Australia

Mika is growing up, though it seems her mother does not quite see it just yet. When the book opens, Mika and her family are

Review of “Frankie” by Megan Daley from The Children’s Book Daily Review

Frankie has always wanted a horse and when her family move to Mullumbimby for a ‘tree change’, she is hopeful this will become a reality.

Where are all the clever girls?

Last week I finally got to see Bruce Beresford’s new movie, Ladies in Black, based on the novel by Madeleine St John. Two hailstorms and a cyclone had previously

Thumbs up to Mary – and Lilith

Mothers Day is complicated for me, because my son is non verbal, and has severe autism, and so a special occasion without presents for him, or

Life

The Outsiders

I’ve always felt like an outsider. I was born late, the last of my generation in my large extended family. I was too young to

The Female Face of War

“He’s afraid now that I will remember the wrong thing. That I will tell it not the way I’m supposed to,” says a woman in

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