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Julia's latest book, The Push, was shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.

For something completely different, she's now in the midst a junior novel about chess. Well, it's about chess in the same way The Push is about The Push, but you get the idea.

("Actually," says Julia, "I've had a few comments lately disputing The Push's status as a young adult novel. I can see the point, but my teenaged readers seem to like it as much as older folk. Maybe we don't need categories?")

In other news, Julia is doing some work with keen writers from the School of Isolated and Distance Education in Western Australia during the rest of the year, and can't wait to see what they produce. And next year she's trying to clear some space to work with the clever kids who come to the Fremantle Children's Literature Centre.