Articles

I've written a collection of short stories, articles and short pieces on a variety of topics. A short extract is listed for some of the articles, for the full text you will need to obtain the magazine in which the piece appeared.

• 'A MOTHER'S OFFERING': Australia's first children's book
• Sunny stories - Enid Blyton wins through - First appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald June 2001
• Love, pain and self-will - Bloodsongs #1 94 ed. Chris A. Masters & Steve Proposch
• Boy from the Monster Forest - Fantastic Worlds ISBN 0-7322-5878-2, Mar '98
• Heroic Fantasy - the Literature of Transcendence - Appears in Altair Magazine, Issue 2, ISSN 1328-3340
• Art and Agoraphobia
• Enid Blyton, Shoddy Noddy and the Infamous Five
• Imaginary Friends
• Kim Wilkins
• Motherhood
• The Power of Three – Fantasy Fiction and the Ubiquitous Trilogy
• Stuttering
• Sylvia Plath biography review 2004
• The Glass Slipper
• True Pleasures - A Memoir of Women in Paris
• The Gift of Fantasy - Why fantasy is important in children's literature