Michelle's Latest News
June, 2010
Michelle will be part of the Girls Read Too program being run by the Centre for Youth Literature in Melbourne on Tuesday, 3rd of August (for teachers) and Wednesday, 4th of August (for secondary school girls, Years 7 to 11). You can find out more at Read Alert.
May, 2010
Michelle will be signing books at the Children's Book Council of Australia's conference in Sydney on Friday, 18th of June, between 1:15pm and 2:15pm.
Michelle will be speaking at the NSW Writers' Centre Festival of Children's and Young Adult Writing in Sydney on Saturday, 3rd of July.
April, 2010
The FitzOsbornes in Exile, the second book in The Montmaray Journals series, is scheduled to be published in hardcover and as an audiobook in North America in April, 2011. A Brief History of Montmaray will be released as a paperback in North America in March, 2011.
January, 2010
A Brief History of Montmaray is on the American Library Association's 2010 Best Books for Young Adults list.
The North American audiobook version of A Brief History of Montmaray, read by Emma Bering, is now available on CD and as a downloadable audiobook from Random House Audio.
The FitzOsbornes in Exile, the second book in The Montmaray Journals series, will be published in Australia in August, 2010.
November, 2009
A Brief History of Montmaray is on the Kids' Indie Next List for Winter 2009, a list of new books recommended by independent booksellers.
A Brief History of Montmaray is also a Recommended Book in the 2009 Parents' Choice Awards.
September, 2009
A Brief History of Montmaray will be available as a hardcover and an e-book in the United States and Canada from the 13th of October, published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers.
August, 2009
Michelle will be part of Youth Reviews The Shortlist 2009 on the 21st of August (the day the CBCA Books of the Year are announced). You can find out more about this videoconference for high school students at the NSW Department of Education website. Registrations close on the 17th of August.
June, 2009
YA blog Persnickety Snark is running a Montmaray competition this month. For a chance to win a signed copy of A Brief History of Montmaray, visit Persnickety Snark. Entries close on the 22nd of June.
May, 2009
A Brief History of Montmaray has been awarded the 2009 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. You can read about the award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards website.
February, 2009
Michelle will be speaking at the 2009 Reading Matters Conference in Melbourne on the 29th and 30th of May. You can find out more at the Reading Matters website.
December, 2008
A Brief History of Montmaray is now available on CD, narrated by Melissa Chambers and published by Louis Braille Audio. You can find out more and order it at the Louis Braille Audio website.
A Brief History of Montmaray has also been added to the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge booklist for Years Seven to Nine. You can find out more at the Reading Challenge website.
September, 2008
A Brief History of Montmaray has been shortlisted for the 2008 Golden Inky, Australia's teenage choice book award. If you're under twenty years of age, you can vote for it (or one of the other excellent YA books on the shortlist) at the Inside A Dog website.
June, 2008
A Brief History of Montmaray, the first in a series of novels set in 1930s Europe, is out now in Australia and New Zealand, published by Random House Australia. It will be published in North America in 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf Books. You can read more about the book here.
November, 2007
Michelle will be speaking about The Rage of Sheep at the 2007 English Teachers' Association Conference on the 8th of December. The conference programme can be found at the ETA website.
