I am just so shocked and deeply saddened by the news of author John Marsden’s passing last night.
It is a seismic loss for Australian literature.
I want to pay tribute to Marsden today, because his work had a life-changing impact on me as a teenager, and he was the single biggest influence on my writing style as a Young Adult novelist.
Aussie teenagers of …
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