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| I’ve just returned from a two-week book tour, taking in LA, New Jersey and New York. It was an extraordinary journey for me, visiting the locations from my book, Mac Slater Vs. The City, which I was in the US to launch. Here is the trip in images, and a few words. |
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| My visit to Oakmont Elementary School in Claremont outside LA was my first-ever US school visit. The kids were super-enthusiastic and made me feel very welcome. |
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| Signing books at Holy Name of Mary School, San Dimas California. |
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| At Dodger Stadium for Dodgers Vs. Giants. Dodgers won. The game was an amazing spectacle. The Dodger Dog with mustard and sauce was a little scary. |
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| I visited head office of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Los Angeles. |
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| Visiting SCBWI HQ in LA with kidlit guru and social media expert Greg Pincus. |
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| The obligatory two-headed turtle shot, Venice Beach, California. |
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| With Tempany Deckert, my co-author on it’s yr life, a YA book that we wrote via email between Australia and LA. |
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| Caught mid-flight with a friend, amazing actor and voice artist, Brian Donovan. |
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| At LAX, trying to capture the journey on paper as it unfolded. |
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| New York has been invaded by bed bugs. This giant inflatable bug on Lexington Avenue warned me of the dangers. |
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| At a book-signing at Books & Greetings, Northvale, New Jersey. I visited quite a few schools and stores on my journey. |
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| A very cool electronic robot invented by a student at Holy Family Catholic Academy in Norwood, New Jersey. |
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| The Chrysler Building, NY, NY. One of my favourite buildings in the city. |
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| Economy Candy, another of my favourite buildings in the city. |
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| The Flatiron Building, corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway. |
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| New York Public Library. I could spend days, weeks, years inside this building. |
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| Working through 1st pages of my new Australian book, ‘My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up’ in a Greenwich Village Cafe |
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| Skyping the folks back home from the ubiquitous Starbucks. |
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| Meeting the team from Simon & Schuster: Bernadette Cruz, Courtney Bongiolatti and Julia Maguire. I have been working with them for two years but, to this point, only via email. They were lots of fun and gave me a bunch of great new books to read. The tour was a fun ride full of good humans, great meetings and possibility. And, as always, travel stimulated lots of new story ideas.
One day in NY I visited as many locations from Mac Slater Vs. The City as I could. Will upload the adventure to Youtube in coming weeks.
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