I’ve just been told I will be unable to get an advance copy of Surprise! back by the time the Melbourne Writer’s Festival rolls around at the end of next month. Not that I was really thinking of doing a reading of it to a room full of adults – not unless they were happy to tap into their ‘inner child’, which, after a few drinks, who knows maybe they’d be happy to consider doing?

So that leaves this story but that will take too long I think for the time I’m allocated, unless I give a truncated version, or an extract.

Or, I was thinking, I could read out some of my ‘better’ blog posts from here. I’m not sure – do you have any particular favourites? Just a thought…

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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity