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Nic: Isobelle Carmody is an inventive and extraordinarily popular writer. When it comes to Australian fantasy fiction, there is no bigger name. I recorded this chat with Isobelle at the State Library of Victoria, after Isobelle had spent the weekend at Comic Con. I started by asking her about her early influences… Listen to the full episode:

Isobelle Carmody’s award winning series, The Kingdom of the Lost Book 3: The Ice Maze …”The Ice Maze is the much anticipated third part in Isobelle Carmody’s The Kingdom of the Lost, and continues the story of brothers Bily and Zluty as they make their way across unknown lands, encountering strange sights and new creatures as they seek help for their friend the Monster, and a new place to call...

One of questions is ” What/who made you start writing? ” for Isobelle to answer. Click on the image below to read 12 Questions Q&A by Kids’ Book Review

A unique collection of masks created by 22 of Australia’s incredibly talented children’s book illustrators and artists. The collection was unveiled at The Masked Ball that celebrated the completion of the the final book in the Obernewtyn series, The Red Queen and is currently on display at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre until July 3rd.   Unmasking the Wild – The Auction. more information on Isobelle’s project, the illustrators...

  Isobelle’s novel Greylands is being made into a film! Greylands is the haunting and exquisitely rendered story of Jack and his little sister, Ellen, as they struggle to cope with their father’s despair in the bleak time after their mother’s death. One night Jack enters the greylands – a world where there is no colour, no noise, no laughter – a place that only the wounded can enter. Isobelle...