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Recovering blogger & debut novelist. The Spill (June 2020, Penguin Random House Australia). 2019 Penguin Literary Prize winner. Spreadsheet enthusiast. She/her.

Australia
Joined April 2009
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Last week I finally got myself a real job as a book-defacer, courtesy of @SceptreBooks & @HodderBooks. Thanks to Steve N and his team at the frankly astonishing Hely Hutchinson Book Distribution Centre.
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If you're in or around the Greater Ballarat area, please come to the BMI this Tuesday (5 March) @ 6pm to see me talk about my new book while wearing a terrifyingly 1990s floral top: ballaratmi.org.au/event/in-c… #ballarat #misophonia #terrifyingly90sfloraltop
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All said and done, the Matildas did Australia proud. Also, viva España! #Matildas
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My heart. MY HEART. #Matildas
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Rumour has it that a young boy at a soccer game was overheard asking his parents “What’s the boy version of the Matildas?” #gladheart
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Proud to be associated with the creation- through my late brother’s Trust- of four new Varuna residencies for GENRE fiction. Crime, history, YA, commercial, romance, etc… go apply! varuna.com.au/fellowships/va…
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Yesterday I found out that my father played bongos in an Estonian band when he was in his teens. I'm not sure what kind of Estonian folk songs require bongos, but I suspect they would be the soundtrack for my whole life.
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OH&S needs to check the settings on the keyboard player's sit-stand desk. #Germany #SBSEurovision
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There are 86 comments and 11 days between me and the end of the structural edit of my next book. Instead of actually dealing with the aforementioned comments, I am writing about them on twitter. This is entirely correct.
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I was prescribed anti-inflammatories for my sore finger but I accidentally called them “anti-defammatories” and now I feel comforted by this idea that the reputation of my left pointer finger is being preserved.
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My father achieved Peak Dad Joke yesterday when he told me that my next book should be called 'The Mop' (says Imbi Neeme, author of 'The Spill').
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If you are my friend and you’ve been avoiding me because you haven’t read my book, please know I would much rather you be my friend than read my book.
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PRO WRITER TIP: Write a book which features a pickup truck and then do a search & replace of "pickup" for "pick up" AND DOUBLE YOUR WORD COUNT.
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My book is out today and I’m disorganised so I had to get up really early to have a bath and stage this photo. With many thanks to my publisher, agent and cat – and any/ all future readers ♥️
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My 2022 resolution was to always remember the number of the petrol pump I used when paying. I succeeded. In 2023, I’ve vowed to pause and savour the feeling of a clean dry towel against my wet face after every shower.
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Safely delivered of 20 beautiful bouncing books this morning! Mother doing well. Books gorgeous and on sale in 3 weeks. @PenguinBooksAus
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So proud of my friend @EmilieCollyer for being the inaugural recipient of the Five Islands Prize for a first book of poetry with ‘Do You Have Anything Less Domestic?’. I agree with the judges: this is a book that truly holds onto the rope.
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Recent google search history includes: bird in far north queensland that screams like a child is a durian a melon extremely boring male names is conflab an actual word missing Victoria state parliament orgy person famous for thin eyebrows #amwriting
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