"One Shot" Southeast Asia Blog Tour: keep your eyes peeled!

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Coleen Mondor (Chasing Ray), Liz Burns (A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozy) and other bloggers are organizing a new “One Shot World Tour,” a multi-blog effort to promote children and ya literature from/about different parts of the world.

Some of you might remember their Australia edition in 2007, and the Canada one in 2008. This time they encourage everyone to explore Southeast Asia. Needless to say, we will be joining in on the fun (there’s even rumor of an interview with PaperTigers, which will be such an honor for us!). The round-up of posts will be hosted by Chasing Ray on Aug 12, so if you have book reviews, interviews or other content that relate to the region by way of author, illustrator or theme, make sure to send them your permalinks. For the sake of this project, the focus will be on: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and The Philippines, so don’t miss out on the chance to participate and share your old favorites and/or new discoveries with all of us!

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One Shot World Tour: Australia

Monday, August 27th, 2007

That’s Why I Wrote This SongI’ve just come back from one month in Brazil (where I was, unexpectedly, pretty much incommunicado) to find that I missed the Australian stop of the multi-blog event One Shot World Tour, organized by the same group that put together the Summer Blog Blast Tour and this week’s Recommendations from Under the Radar. Some of the dishes served up at the several-course (Vegemite and all) Australian meal were: interviews with Margo Lanagan and Queenie Chan at 7 Imp Things and the YA YA YAs, respectively, and an exploration of John Marsden’s Tomorrow Series at Jen Robinson’s Page (see full OSWT schedule here).

I’d like to add my contribution, late as it may be, by pointing folks to award-winning Australian writer Susanne Gervay’s latest ya book, That’s Why I Wrote This Song, a cutting edge story set against the rock music scene, about sixteen year old girls connected through music as they search for identity. In a recent article contributed to PaperTigers, Gervay tells us: “[The book] embraces other mediums and technologies, in a collaborative work with my songwriter and musician daughter, Tory, who wrote the lyrics and rock music that are integral to the story (…). The story also has the dimension of film, as a young producer translated Tory’s song ‘Psycho Dad’ into a film clip.” The song and the video are available for downloading from the author’s website.

For more Aussie kidlit talents, check out the following: interview with Hazel Edwards, ‘personal views’ article by Chris Cheng, and Caroline Magerl and Shaun Tan online galleries.

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