Young Performers Wordsmiths and Readers  
Linda can make you laugh out loud with her novels....

give you skills to banish your 'writer's block' so you can be one of the next generation of great writers....

or maybe you would like to stage one of her plays at school! Click to see how.

 

Emily unexpectedly finds herself in control of the family firm she discovers that life as a kelp magnate has a serious downside.

At 14 there can be more than a few downsides, tugged heartstrings and heaps of laughs!

 

Emily's delightful story is now shared in many languages.

 

 


Look out for a new and hilarious Ian Rude adventure in the middle of 2006!

How do you fit into a new school if you keep causing freak accidents? And what if those accidents are happening to teachers, especially Berkhoff, the Maths Teacher from Hell?

When Ian Rude and his family move to Yarradindi to set up a health food shop, the last enemy Ian wants is savage Mr Berkhoff and the last friends he needs are the Year 12 Mafiac.

Does Ian have the Evil Eye, and can he save the health food shop from from a gang of elderly bikies?


When plain-looking Ian Rude pretends he's into conservation to get the most gorgeous girl at Yarradindi High, he doesn’t count on getting blackmailed into doing weird and insane things by Natasha, the girl who puts the word mental into environmental.

Will Ian get the scrumptious Suzie? Will demented Natasha drown him in Syd Pocky’s toilet bowl? Is Ian really an emu whisperer?

A laugh-a-minute book about how not to get a girlfriend.

 


Want the secrets that writers use to harness their creativity, weave a great story and get it in print or on the screen, this is the book for you... also is a great stress buster if your challenges are of the HSC kind!

My mum put me into this box.

She said it was for a fancy dress competition, but I think it was a trick to shut me up for five minutes (a hard job).

 

Writing Tips for you

Tips on writing - Help me! I love writing! Help me! I hate writing!

Here's the help

 

Linda runs workshops for all ages, and can also be your writer in residence -

Enquiries and bookings through Lateral Learning Speakers’ Agency.

www.laterallearning.com.au

 

Who is Linda?

Linda is an award winning author of children's books, plays and musicals, has written for lots of television shows and teaches writers from six to eternity, the joys of being a story teller. Yes it is much much more than punctuation and spelling and much much more fun.

She also runs courses, script clinics and helps producers and directors make sense of scripts that might be loosing the plot a bit!

She travels a lot and teaches in many of the famous universities and film schools, but when she can she also loves visiting schools and talking to people like you who enjoy her work.

But when she can, she also visits schools and talks to people like you who love her books, and maybe would like to write as well, or act, or is just interested in story telling. No not tall tales about why you were late or who spilled that unmentionable stuff on the classroom floor.

But then come to think about it, maybe she told a few tall tales when she was trying to explain how she got to be the 'heroine' - see pic on the right - and how she got into that box in the first place.