Listen to my interview with Noreen Mir at RTHK3 about my new book and the launch this Saturday!
October 21, 2021 at 10:32 pm | Posted in Radio interviews | Leave a commentTags: Bookazine Princes Building, Charly Cheung, Noreen Mir, RTHK3, The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah

A big THANK YOU to the lovely Noreen Mir at RTHK3, who interviewed me yesterday about my new book The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah and the exciting book launch coming up at 3pm this Saturday at Bookazine, Princes Building! You can register on this link.
Just click HERE at 48:40 on the slide to hear all about:
- my inspiration for the book
- some of the fascinating true HK history behind it, including the World War II tunnels still lying beneath Hong Kong
- why Government House in Hong Kong is an important setting in the story 🙂
- how I first met our fabulous artist Charly Cheung on a plane 🙂
- what it was like to write a chapter book for the first time after all my rhyming verse in the Chinese Calendar Tales!
A fun interview on RTHK3 Radio about my session at the Young Readers’ Festival 2020 tomorrow!
June 9, 2020 at 3:50 pm | Posted in Events, Hong Kong events, Hong Kong Young Readers Festival 2020, interviews, Radio interviews, RTHK3 | Leave a commentTags: Hong Kong International Young Readers Festival, RTHK3, The 123 Show, The Chinese Calendar Tales
Yesterday I had a fun interview with the fabulous Noreen Mir at RTHK Radio 3 on the 123 Show! We talked all about my upcoming session with the HK Virtual Young Readers Festival, including a very funny and frank video of me and Harry Harrison explaining How We Created the Chinese Calendar Tales, and a Q and A session to follow! You can listen to it here!
Follow this link to learn more about the Festival, and to access the live event tomorrow: https://www.festival.org.hk/2020-hong-kong-young-readers-festival-virtual-event/
My RTHK3 interview about The Great Year of the Rat Challenge 2020!
February 22, 2020 at 11:24 am | Posted in Challenges and activities, Press interviews, Radio interviews, RTHK3 | Leave a commentTags: Noreen Mir, RTHK3, The 123 Show, The Great Year of the Rat Challenge 2020
If you want to hear lots more about The Great Year of the Rat Challenge 2020 you can listen here to my interview yesterday on RTHK3 with the fabulous Noreen Mir on her 123 Show! The interview starts at 13:17:54 and ends at 13:37:07.
Thanks Noreen for a fun interview, as ever!
Ping Pong Pig rides the radio waves!
January 25, 2019 at 3:32 pm | Posted in Book launches, Chinese New Year, Podcasts, Press, Radio interviews, RTHK3 | Leave a commentTags: Noreen Mir, RTHK3, Storm Whale, The 123 Show, The Tale of Ping Pong Pig
Photo copyright http://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/1_2_3_show?lang=en
On Wednesday afternoon, I had a fun interview with the lovely Noreen Mir on the 123 Show on RTHK3! We talked all about the book launch this Saturday, the fascinating Chinese history brought to life in my new book The Tale of Ping Pong Pig and my recent adventures with Storm Whale! Click on this podcast link to listen in!
Another wonderful Tassie trip!
May 30, 2018 at 8:29 am | Posted in Australian schools, Bookshop event, Radio interviews, Talks to teachers | Leave a commentTags: ASLA, ASLA Mini-Conference 2018, Tasmania
Hello everyone! I was back in my beautiful childhood home Tasmania last week, to give the keynote speech for the ASLA (Australian School Librarians Association) Mini-Conference 2018, two wonderful school visits, a radio interview and a fabulous bookshop event! See my next posts for all the news and fun!
My interview with Noreen Mir, RTHK3!
February 9, 2018 at 8:02 pm | Posted in Book launches, Bookazine Princes Building, Children's Chinese Zodiac Books, Chinese New Year, Radio interviews | Leave a commentTags: 1 2 3 Show, Chinese history, Chinese New Year, Ching Shih, Hong Kong, RTHK3, The Tale of Desmond Dog, The Year of the Dog
This afternoon I had a wonderful chat with Noreen Mir at RTHK Radio 3 on the 1 2 3 Show all about my new book The Tale of Desmond Dog, the amazing history of Hong Kong and notorious pirate queen Ching Shih behind it, and, of course, the official launch of Harry Harrison’s and my book at Bookazine, 3rd floor, Princes Building, tomorrow at 2pm! You can listen to it here !
And don’t forget to come along! There’ll be a fabulous story reading, a fun quiz with some great prizes, laissee with yummy coins, bookmarks, snacks and drinks for everyone! Be there, or the Red Flags will come and get you – aha me hearties!!!
My fun interview with RTHK Radio 3!
March 22, 2017 at 10:38 am | Posted in Press, Radio interviews | Leave a commentTags: Chinese history, March Madness Minibus Photo Competition, RTHK3, The Tale of Rickshaw Rooster, The Year of the Rooster
Here I am at the studios of RTHK Radio 3, after my fun interview with the wonderful Noreen Mir of the 123 Program on 13th March. And if you want to hear my interview, where I talk about all the fabulous history behind my latest Chinese Calendar Tale, The Tale of Rickshaw Rooster, my writing process, my school visits, my Chinese fairy godfather :), our new minibus advertisements, some exciting news about a new book, as well as my top tips for creating great readers and writers in the digital age, here is the link!
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