Deby Adair's Blog - Posts Tagged "wish-again"

Benny Blog Tip: #3 - Write what you like.

Hi young creators, it’s always great to see you here!
Katrina from Wales asked me one day what she should write about. She said that she knew she wanted to write something, but wasn’t sure what.
Well, first I asked Katrina how old she was and she told me that she was eleven. So Katrina is a spring chicken then, isn’t she! I asked Katrina what she liked… you know, what kind of things she does in her spare time and she said that, (apart from her love of unicorns and ponies,) that she also loved to draw pictures and she loved walking her dog in the park and watching dogs play. These are her favourite things.
So I told Katrina to write stories about her dog and other stories about the dogs that she meets. Well, Katrina’s eyes lit right up when I mentioned that and she told me that she had tons of stories she could write about dogs!
How good is that! And last time I met Katrina, she showed me six stories that she’d written and she’d also done some drawings to go with them! Wow, Katrina, so proud of you.
Her friend Jayden also began writing stories, but he loves trains, and he can see the trains arrive in town from his bedroom window. He told Katrina that he wrote a really long story about all of the different kind of people who were getting off the train and he imagined, by looking at them, what kind of people they were and what kind of lives they lived. I say that’s just fantastic! Such amazing kids and wonderful ideas about writing their very own stories. I hope they keep those stories and share them with the world, one day.
Thanks everyone! I’ll see you here next time, at Benny’s Blog!

What a year so far! What fantastic schools! Starting with the invitation from ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association,) Deby Adair joined the Australian National Simultaneous Story time. From there, Deby's journey of spreading the word about the joys of reading and the love of books, (as a Friend of the 2012 National Year of Reading,) went on to several schools, with some events still to go by the end of 2012.

UnicornKisses has provided beautiful FREE UnicornKisses Stickers and WISH trilogy bookmarks to each and every child who attends... that's about 700 stickers and bookmarks... and they are a raging success... the kids love them! What could be better than a bookmark for all those young readers!

UnicornKisses and Deby Adair also held a fantastic 'schools-only' competition this winter, with beautiful and quality prizes to be won. Lucky winners in each school won prizes ranging from the Benny Posters to the amazing giveaway First Prize of the WISH TRILOGY in paperback!
During her school talks Deby Adair not only talks about the love of, and importance, of reading and literacy, but she also asks the schools to become involved in awareness of animal welfare. Some schools participate in fund raisers for Accredited Animal Welfare organisations. This year, the organisation that was chosen was the Australian Koala Foundation, (in order to raise awareness for the endangerment of the koala's environment due to loss of habitat.)

Deby Adair has enjoyed her 'school' days immensely, and says that she met wonderful children who were bright, intelligent and very well informed about all sorts of subjects and that their level of enthusiasm for books and reading was a real credit to the amazing and dedicated teachers that she feels awe-inspired to have met!

So, a great day for kids to receive wonderful insights into the fun and benefit of reading and literacy and also in understanding how valuable the animal kingdom (our friends on Earth,) are! These exciting events have all been mentioned on Facebook 'Books you Love' and Facebook 'UnicornKisses' & posted as Events on the 2012 National Year of Reading.

Good on you kids. Good on the hard working authors who spread the message of reading and books!

Best Wishes,
Deby Adair and UnicornKisses.

Hello all,

This will be my last post for 2012 as it's been a very hectic and eventful year full of twists and turns.

Firstly, the Australian school tour in conjunction with the 2012 National Year of Reading was a HUGE success!

UnicornKisses was inundated with requests for the WISH trilogy from both school children and school libraries from across this broad land and we were also swept off our feet when we received such amazing press from readers in the United Kingdom, as well.

Our distributor in Australia has been just amazing and... at last... in the next three weeks the WISH trilogy will be availabe from Amazon with our beautifully formatted 'QED awarded quality and excellence in design' eBooks, (eBook Architects, I'd recommend them for their professionalism and expertise) in Kindle as well as paperback. Next stop, Google books.

Thank you to all of you who have supported UnicornKisses, the WISH trilogy and myself during this year of change, transition and big developments.

All the best to you all for now and into the new year and a huge 'GOOD LUCK' to those of you entering the 'WISH AGAIN-Dreams Truth' Goodreads GIVEAWAY!

Warm wishes,
Deby Adair

(Dedicated to all those loved ones who are no longer with us to share the wonderful moments of our lives, but who will live on in our hearts for ever.)

Hello all!

Just under 700 of you entered to win 'WISH AGAIN-Dreams Truth' and I would like to thank you all so much for taking the time to enter.

For those of you who didn't win, don't despair, as of the middle of February this year, UnicornKisses will be hosting a giveaway for some fabulous UnicornKisses WISH trilogy artwork- www.unicornkisses.com - and then a little later in the year there will another Goodreads giveaway for 'WISH-Dreams Beginning'.

And CONGRATULATIONS to Amanda Anderson & Joel Voth, our 2 lucky winners this January, for winning the Goodreads Giveaway for 'WISH AGAIN-Dreams Truth'. We hope you thoroughly enjoy your reading experience!

Warm wishes!
Deby Adair & the Team at UnicornKisses.
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The WISH trilogy - www.amazon .com in Kindle and Paperback.