Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

Have patience!

Have patience all you wonderful writers out there! I’m still judging the Clever Competition, so give me just a few days more and I’ll announce the results! Your stories are great and I’m really enjoying them!

Thank you Discovery College!

A big thank you to Leanne Sercombe and the clever kids of Primary One for a fabulous day of learning about writing stories! We learnt all about characters, settings and the different types of stories, as well as building story mountains! It was fun! And it was even more fun introducing you all to my lovely Sybil Snake – sssssssss!

NEE NOO, NEE NOO, TIME’S UP!

Time’s up in my Martian Christmas Story Writing Competition and a big THANK YOU to all you fabulous writers who sent me such wonderful stories! I can’t wait to read them all! I’ll be starting the judging shortly, and will let you all know by the end of next week who the finalists are! Keep on writing!

Thank you to the team at ABC3 TV for a dream come true!

Wow that was fun! This morning I went to the ABC3 studios in Melbourne to record some special footage for Chinese New Year viewing around Australia! I had so much fun talking to presenters Amberley and Kaled about Chinese New Year and my new book The Tale of Sybil Snake – and I even got to throw two cream pies in Kaled’s face! I’ve been dreaming of throwing cream pies since I was a kid! Thanks Amberley, Kaled, fabulous producer Conor Ayres and the whole team at ABC3 for a funny and fabulous time!

If you’d like to see the program at Chinese New Year, just tune into ABC3 in the morning on Sunday 10th and Monday 11th February!

A date for your diary in Hong Kong!

Hello to all my lovely Hong Kong fans and followers! Here’s a special date for your diaries: the launch of The Tale of Sybil Snake in Hong Kong on Saturday 2nd February at 2pm at Bookazine Princes Building! Here is your invitation – I’d love to see you there! Don’t forget to ask mum or dad to RSVP at the address shown on the invitation!

Sybil Snake is getting ready to strike!

Here she is at last! The latest beastie in the Chinese Calendar Tales is getting ready to strike at Chinese New Year! And if you live in Australia, you can get a special sneek peek in January!

Come and meet Sybil in person on Sunday 20th January at 3pm, when Sybil will be having her official Australian launch at the Secret Garden Bookshop at Mt Tamborine in Queensland – there’ll be a reading, booksigning, quiz, colouring pages and prizes galore! Come along and join in all the fun! Here’s your special invitation – I hope to see you there!

Calling all Martians! Just 10 days to go in my Clever Competition!

Neee Nooo! Neee Nooo! That’s Martian for “Happy New Year and Get a Move On”!! You’ve got just 10 days to go till the deadline for my Christmas writing Competition! Go to my Clever Competition page above for all the details about how to enter!

A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You All!

The Chinese Calendar Tale family, the Neats and the Grots and I would all like to wish you a wonderfully Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years! We hope that Father Christmas brings you all the presents you wish for, and that you all have a lovely time with your family and friends, wherever you may be! And if you have a moment to spare between opening presents and eating all that scrumptious festive food and playing with all your siblings and cousins and friends, remember there’s a fabulous Writing Competition on my blog to enter, and it’s all about Christmas on Mars! Keep safe, be happy and above all, have fun!

Yippee! Pin Yin Panda is a Hong Kong 2012 Best-Seller!

What a fabulous way for Pin Yin Panda to end her year in 2012! Here are Bookazine’s Best-Selling Children’s Books for 2012 – and Pin Yin Panda is a very happy Number Two! We beat Julia Donaldson’s The Snail and the Whale, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games, Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and even Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid! We only got pipped by Diana Wu-David’s wonderful Hong Kong ABC – and next in line at Number Three was Joanne O’Callaghan’s My Hong Kong. As great fans of both those authors and their lovely books, Pin Yin Panda and I are very proud to be in such excellent company!

Say hello to the Best Design Team in Hong Kong!

Here they are – E5, the best design team in Hong Kong, if not the world! Introducing owner Elby Cheung (centre right), artisitic director Roy Chan (centre left) and designers Jeffery Wong and Shirley Ng with my fabulous new book The Tale of Sybil Snake and the first book in the series The Tale of Run Run Rat! E5 have designed my books since the very beginning, with The Tale of Chester Choi, way back in 2007! Aren’t they just the best?! Thanks Elby, Roy and team for all your amazing work!