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Bren MacDibble

@macdibble

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Nanda Country, Kalbarri WA
Children's Books - Writer/Author
How to Bee
The Dog Runner
Across the Risen Sea
The Raven’s Song
The Apprentice Witnesser

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So excited to be shortlisted in the @statelibrarywa Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards! by @macdibble

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So pleased The Apprentice Witnesser has been shortlisted for @wilderness_aus ‘s Environment Awards for Children’s Literature alongside other amazing titles in the Environment and the Karajia Awards. Check them all out at eacl.org.au and buy from @harryhartogbookseller by @macdibble

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So grateful for this wonderful acknowledgment from @aurealisawards . It was a glorious list of kids speculative fiction and I encourage you to read them all! Happy 30th Birthday Aurealis Awards and thank you for sharing the SFFH love! #sf #kidlit #loveozmg by @macdibble

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Research is growing veggies hydroponically in random things for a book I started last month. These cherry tomatoes were started in a paper snail, and transferred to a pot in a bucket of water and fertiliser and so far they seem to be happy. My characters will not starve at the end of the world as long as they have seeds and fertiliser and water and mediums like paper. Plus maintenance wise… easy. No watering needed. The roots will chase the water down into the bottom of the bucket and that’s supposed to get them through fruiting. We’ll see. #newbook #research #kidlit. I’m also starting another new book but those characters will be less well fed. by @macdibble

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Nevermind Charlie! We are our own Angels! Making plans and planning words and teaming up for fun! Such a wonderful weekend with @deewhiteauthor @reekimberley #writers #kidlit by @macdibble

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New editions! The Dog Runner out with Booky in simplified Chinese (renamed) (it won an award?) and Across the Risen Sea in hard cover with Miš in Slovenian. Booky released a while ago this is the first time I’ve seen it and they’re now working on a highly illustrated version. by @macdibble

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The picture of the local traffic is just for fun because I have got through to the end of the structural edits on my YA for Fremantle Press! Yay! Structural edits are TERRIFYING! It’s the last chance to make the book work and every comment by the editor has to be considered and thought through and enacted on in some way, bc they’re not putting in comments for shits and giggles, I have created a problem that has called them to question something and we can’t have a reader doing that! It’s quite crippling tbh. Everything after this is froufrou and front of house. This is the work! I have now largely worked through the terror and I’m feeling better and a big thank you to my new editor Naama for all your insightful help. ❤️ Now move along you emu, nothing to see here! by @macdibble

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Some photos from my trip to #scbwiWA on Rottnest Island. There were amazing people and fun workshops and interesting presentations as well but I was too busy then to snap pics! 😆 Had a lot of fun! by @macdibble

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Hellooo! #scbwi #scbwiWA #rottnessisland by @macdibble

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Fun publishing chit chat in a funky Freo warehouse with Marisa from Hardie Grant, Aly, Little Books and Alex, Fremantle Press, at the Rottnest retreat Land-lubber day before we hit the high seas for Rotto tomorrow. #scbwiWA #scbwi by @macdibble

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Look what arrived from Beijing Xinde in China! Simplified Chinese translations of Across the Risen Sea and How to Bee with @johuntbookdesign’s original cover for AtRS and a whole new cover for HtB! AND internal pics at about 1 every 3rd chapter! Amazing! I hope they do well in China. #mgfiction #kidsbooks Thanks to Carey, Boyd and the Rights Team @allenandunwin for finding these opportunities! by @macdibble

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It’s Earth Day! Earth Overshoot Day this year is likely to fall on June 5 … this is the day we burn through more resources than the planet can regenerate in a year. Humans are living unsustainable lives on this planet. We’re not even making it half a year now! Australia overshot on March 23! It’s us! We are part of the problem! Look up! Take action. We are stealing from the future. #earthday #sustainability by @macdibble

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