Gabrielle Tozer

Year: 1989. Side ponytail: immaculate. Skivvy: full ET-phone-home energy. Monobrow: just getting started. Brain: daydreaming about riding around on a ladybug, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids style, instead of listening.

Excited to hit the storytime circuit this CBCA National Book Week with Tiny Good Things (illustrated by the marvellous Sophie Beer), including an extra special visit or two to my old haunt, Kangaroo Preschool, in Wagga Wagga 😇 Eight storytimes and four writing workshops across next week… let’s do this! Shoutout to Scott and the legends at Collins Booksellers Wagga for their support too!

Big love to all the teacher-librarians, educators, teachers, daycare staff, preschool directors, libraries and booksellers making Book Week such a special time for kids across Australia.

And to my fellow authors, may your Butter-Menthols be plentiful and your energy high! 💛

Little weekend artist date at InkHunter’s ‘Happy Dance’ mural 💛💖💜 Creative Riverina Tina de Jong

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Artist appreciation post: Sarah Jarrett’s stunning pieces. I feel seen, inspired and moved all at once. Obsessed is an understatement. What are you loving and/or feeling inspired by this week? Tag below! ✨

This collage, this song ✨ My manuscript’s with the copy editor but my mind’s still on my girls Leni and Sylvie. (Will tell you more when I’m allowed, promise!)

ICYMI: one of my fave humans Kim - FK Collage created this gorgeous handcut paper collage and, once she heard how much it resonated with my new novel idea, she gifted me a framed print that quickly became an anchor during the drafting process.

Kim was the second person in the universe who heard the ins and outs of my idea (even before my publisher) and her work is still one of my prized possessions in the home office. Forever an inspiration ✨

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Dreaming up what’s next at WRK HRS • Coworking Days • Wagga Wagga, NSW’s August WRK HRS event 💛🩷💛

My novel manuscript is with the copy editor (eee!) and the words for the next picture book are with fave Sophie Beer (yeeew!), so today’s Writing in the Wild Wednesday goals were JUST what I needed after a ridiculously intense few months.

✨ Get stuck into LEANNE BAKER DAILY’s Project 14 course (I do at least one of these a year)
✨ Play with new story ideas and daydream in Secret Garden Mode (what I call my dreamy, low-pressure headspace for escaping into my imagination without deadlines or expectations)
✨ Eat my body weight in caramel slice
✨ Catch up on what the brilliant WRK HRS crew have been up to since the last co-working session

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If you’re new here, WRK HRS is led by the lovely Rach Anderson from Rach | Copywriter + Content Strategist and WRK HRS • Coworking Days • Wagga Wagga, NSW and features a mix of regional creatives and small business owners. It’s always one of my highlights in the work calendar: great company, inspiring chats, hot chips and sweets, unlimited pots of tea and 11/10 productivity. Love / need.

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The Writing In The Wild project is supported by the Eastern Riverina Arts Writers Grant, administered by Eastern Riverina Arts on behalf of the NSW Government.

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A few tiny good things from our Sydney book party 💛

Storytime! Kite craft! Colouring-in! Cookies! Dress-ups! Scavenger hunt! A beautiful Tiny Good Things wall!Sharing our own tiny good things with each other! Laughs! Rainbows! Frilly yellow socks! Seeing old friends and making new ones!

Endless gratitude to Rach from Children’s events at Gleebooks who went above and beyond to help us create magic for our guests, PRETTY LITTLE BISCUIT for whipping up a last-minute batch of her gorgeous Tiny Good Things cookies for me, Maraya Bell - Stuff Mums Like for all the event and bookshop wrangling, my dear mate CF for snapping these photos that capture some of the tiniest and sweetest details, and everyone who came and joined in the celebration with us. Love! 💛

Reunited! Such a glorious day in Sydney with human sunbeam and creative wiz Sophie Beer meeting booksellers, signing books at Harry Hartog Independent Bookseller in Mosman, Woollahra Bookshop and Kinokuniya Sydney, yapping about future projects (👀), drinking The Best Hot Chocolate Ever and catching up with HarperCollins Children's Books HarperCollins Publishers Aust HarperCollins Design Studio Mark Campbell Nicola Maraya Bell - Stuff Mums Like. Come say hi and hang with us in Children’s events at Gleebooks in Glebe tomorrow at 2pm! 💛

Sydney, we can’t wait to celebrate Tiny Good Things with you this weekend! Join us at 2pm this Saturday at Children’s events at Gleebooks in Glebe for storytime, craft, dress-ups, a scavenger hunt and extra special cookies. Entry is free but RSVPs are appreciated via the wonderful Rachel in slide 3 💛 All welcome!