Hello again, from me again, finally, again!
It’s June 12th 1999 and I’ve been so busy with Other Things that my Hot News Space has yet again a had time to cool right down. Apologies for the slackness. Explanations follow in a moment!
I do read the Guest Book on this website and love the messages. Thanks [...]
Easter 1999
Hello again.
I’m embarrassed.
It’s April 2nd 1999 and I know from keeping my ear to the ground that something called a Hot News Space should have HOT news in it. My news gets lukewarm very quickly for many reasons. I feel like a kid at school who hasn’t done her homework! Listen to [...]
Mem Fox Perspiring
Hi! Whew!
I knew it would be a long hot summer. Adelaide has been sweltering. Fortunately Malcolm and I were away for the major heat wave on our crazy 30th wedding anniversary trip in Chile, Martinique, Barbados, London, Paris, Yemen and Vietnam. Yes, it was totally brilliant and in spite of being together for [...]
Christmas Hot News 1998
Hot News Space
Oh no! Shock, horror. It’s nearly Christmas and I haven’t updated the Hot News Space since August. I’m sure this is a terrible web-site sin but I am so rarely at home I know you will excuse me. Thanks for your patience^as they so irritatingly say when your plane’s already [...]
The years are catching up on me!
Hi! If you can believe it—I can’t!—I’ve just spent half an evening writing up all my Hot News only to lose it into cyberspace yet again. I am a slow and ponderous two-fingered typist so this is a disaster. I’m going to type fast and hope that this time [...]
Can you believe it? At last, an update!
All right, all right, I apologise! What use is a home page if it isn’t updated? For months the so-called “hot” news in my Hot News Space hasn’t even been lukewarm—it’s been stone cold. It’s now mid-July 1998. The last entry was mid-May. Ridiculous. I did update it [...]
About to leave the country for the USA: TEMPORARILY!!
Hi everyone. It’s been a hectic two weeks. I’ve been doing a book tour for “Whoever you are” in four Australian States as well as presenting a teacher seminar for Scholastic in Melbourne. It’s been exhausting and exciting: I’ve been on Good Morning Australia, the Today Show, [...]
The heat is still on in many ways!
Hi! But hi especially to all those wonderful people who have left me great messages at the end of this website. You make me so happy it’s ridiculous. I have answered the messages (where possible) in the guest book—so look there, not here, for any replies.
The whole point [...]
Will I be where you are in 1998?
When: March 25th
Where: Melbourne
What: Scholastic Teacher Seminars
Contact: Scholastic Office in Melbourne
When: April 3rd
Where: Virginia Beach, USA
What: Virginia Reading Association
Contact: Nancy Davenport Ph.757.431.4015
When: April 7th and 8th
Where: Albany, New York
What: School visits and teacher seminar
Contact: Frank Hodge Ph. 518.434.0238
When: April 13th and 14th
Where: Fairfield, Connecticut
What: School visits
Contact: Jimmy Giff [...]
Hot (as in heatwave) News
To those of you who have left messages, thanks a million. Especially thanks to Gail Munnecke of the Los Angeles County Office of Education whose email isn’t working and whose letter I am about to quote, with her permission:
“Dear Mem Fox,
This letter is long overdue. I say this because I first [...]
My two latest books have just hit the shelves in the USA. The first is: Whoever You Are, published in Sept 1997 (San Diego: Harcourt Brace) with divergent, glorious naive-art illustrations by Leslie Staub, a funky New Orleans artist. Hardback copies of Whoever you are will be available in Australia (Harcourt) before Christmas 1997 and [...]
Review from Publishers Weekly of The Straight Line Wonder, New York, August 18th 1997
Mem Fox, illus. by Marc Rosenthal. Mondo, $14,95. (32p) ISBN 1-57255-206-9
A straight character literally learns to bend a little in this chipper fable about being true to oneself. In a fantasy world inhabited by straight lines that are distinguished only by their [...]