One Word Wisdom with author/illustrator Aura Parker

1. What is the best thing about being an author? Words

2. What�s the worst thing? Doubt

3. How did creating your picture book Twig make you feel? Frenzied

4. What do you hope it brings its readers? Courageandjoy

5. What else do you like to do? Textiles

6. Who has influenced your writing the most? Marena Von Behr

7. What has been your biggest career reward? Response

8. What is the most important contribution an author/illustrator can make to the world? Beauty

9. What�s your biggest writing goal? Morebooksmorebeautifulness

10. What�s next? Anexhibitionandabigliedown

As an illustrator, designer and writer, Aura Parker creates bodies of work, including textile designs, prints and picture books. She is the co-founder of boutique Australian art and textiles label Studio Bonnie.

Aura's divine debut book, Twig, is out now! 
Learn more at her website.

One Word Wisdom with author/illustrator Christina Booth

1. What is the best thing about being an author? 
Uniqueness

2. What�s the worst thing? 
Isolation

3. How did creating your picture book Too Many Sheep make you feel? 
Happy

4. What do you hope it brings its readers? 
Happiness

5. What else do you like to do? 
Read

6. Who has influenced your writing the most? 
Dahl

7. What has been your biggest career reward?
Readers

8. What is the most important contribution an author/illustrator can make to the world?
Hope

9. What�s your biggest writing goal? 
Persistence

10. What�s next? 
Words

Christina works from her Launceston studio overlooking a lake and a variety of wildlife. She illustrates her own books and great stories for other authors. A number of her books have won awards including Kip (Windy Hollow Books), the story of a noisy rooster living in the city, which won an Honour Book Award in the 2010 CBCA (Children�s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year Awards and Welcome Home (Ford Street Publishing), the story of a whale as she returns to her ancestors home, which won the Environmental Award for Children's Literature in 2014.

Christina's latest book, Too Many Sheep, is out now! Learn more about her fabulous books at her website.

One Word Wisdom with author Kaaron Warren

1. What is the best thing about being an author? 
Creation

2. What�s the worst thing? 
Self-doubt

3. How did writing your novel The Grief Hole make you feel? 
Scared

4. What do you hope it brings its readers? 
Hope

5. What else do you like to do? 
Talk

6. Who has influenced your writing the most? 
Fremlin

7. What has been your biggest career reward?
Response

8. What is the most important contribution an author can make to the world?
Continue

9. What�s your biggest writing goal? 
Infinite

10. What�s next? 
More

Kaaron Warren has been publishing horror and science fiction for more than 20 years. She�s won awards close to home (the Canberra Critics Circle Award) and far away (the Shirley Jackson Award). Kaaron has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji. She�s sold more than 200 short stories, three novels (the multi-award-winning Slights, Walking the Tree and Mistification) and six short story collections including the multi-award-winning Through Splintered Walls. Her latest novel is The Grief Hole (IFWG Publishing Australia) will launch at the Canberra Writers Festival in August 2016.

Pre-order The Grief Hole here, and learn more about 
Kaaron's fabulous books at her website.

One Word Wisdom with designer Lisa-Marie Kerr

1. What is the best thing about running your own design company?  
Freedom

2. What�s the worst thing?  
Uncertainty

3. How did opening Bear and Sparrow make you feel?  
Breathless

4. What do you hope it brings its customers?  
Rapture

5. Who has influenced your business the most? 
Society

6. What has been your biggest career reward? 
Self-Actualisation 

7. What's the most important contribution design can make to the world?  
Stimulation

8. What�s your biggest career goal?  
Acclaim

9. What else do you like to do?  
Encourage-others

10. What�s next?  
YouTube

Lisa-Marie Kerr refers to herself as an ideas pi�ata ... even she struggles to keep up with what she describes as the divine inspiration she receives daily. The owner and chief designer for stunning children's homewares website Bear and Sparrow, Lisa-Marie is a woman who craves variety and ... being different, which she uses as her motivation when designing new pieces for Bear and Sparrow. Married with three beautiful children and the most gorgeous dog, Lisa-Marie is an everyday woman working hard to make her mark on the world. Bear and Sparrow is 100% Australian owned, designed and made.

Learn more about Bear and Sparrow at the website. 

One Word Wisdom with author Jack Heath

1. What is the best thing about being an author?
Daydreaming

2. What�s the worst thing?
Repetition

3. How did writing Bullet Train Disaster make you feel?
Tangled 

4. What do you hope it brings its readers?
Focus 

5. What else do you like to do?
Entertain

6. Who has influenced your writing the most?
Silverberg 

7. What has been your biggest career reward?
Education

8. What is the most important contribution an author can make to the world?
Empathy

9. What�s your biggest writing goal?
#100

10. What�s next?
Sequels!

Learn more about Jack's fabulous books 
at his website. 

One Word Wisdom with author Jacqueline Harvey

1. What is the best thing about being an author? 
Creativity

2. What�s the worst thing?
Juggling

3. How did writing the 13th book in the Alice-Miranda series make you feel? 
Happy

4. What do you hope it brings its readers? 
Pleasure

5. What else do you like to do? 
Golf

6. Who has influenced your writing the most? 
Dahl

7. What has been your biggest career reward?
Readers

8. What is the most important contribution an author can make to the world? 
Ideas

9. What�s your biggest writing goal?
Longevity

10. What�s next?
Clementine Rose Paris

Learn more about Jacquie's fabulous books 

at her website. 

One Word Wisdom with author Jen Storer

1. What is the best thing about being an author?
Stories.

2. What�s the worst thing? 
Midriff.

3. How did writing the first book in the Danny Best series make you feel? Mischievous.

4. What do you hope it brings its readers?
Joy.

5. What else do you like to do?
Art.

6. Who has influenced your writing the most? 
Enid.

7. What has been your biggest career reward?
Readers.

8. What is the most important contribution an author can make to the world?
Soul.

9. What�s your biggest writing goal?
Tensy 2

10. What�s next?
MORE!

Learn more about Jen's fabulous books at her website, and her Baxter Street blogspot is brilliant--you simply must!

One Word Wisdom with author Hazel Edwards

Just delighted to welcome Hazel Edwards to my blog to answer my One Word Wisdom challenge, and to show you her new memoir, Not Just a Piece of Cake, which is packed with humorous anecdotes and plenty of insider info and priceless advice from decades of industry experience. 

Typical writer�she simply could not stick to one word per answer, but I�ll allow this because she�s so utterly fabulous (and I also know how hard that is).

1. What is the best thing about being an author?
Variety.

2. What�s the worst thing?
Time-lags.

3. How did writing Not Just a Piece of Cake make you feel?
Challenged.

4. What do you hope it brings its readers?
Realistic creativity.

5. Name your greatest writing achievement.
Mentoring my 'hazelnuts'.
f2m;the boy within
Astrid Lindgren nominations.
OAM for Literature.

6. Who has influenced your writing the most?
Family.

7. What has been your biggest career reward?
Poignant fan mail.

8. What's the most important contribution an author can make to the world?
Tolerance.

9. What�s your biggest writing goal?
Collaborating on significant projects.

10. What�s next?
Hijabi Girl junior chapter book.

Head to Hazel's website for more about her work, and to purchase your copy of Not Just a Piece of Cake.