Fellow Book Links QLD member, June Perkins interviews Dimity Powell, author of The Fix-It Man at Pearlz Dreaming. Read How to Launch a Children’s Book About Loss.
Today’s special guest is Dimity Powell who will share her journey to create the picture book The Fix-it-Man.
I first met Dimity through an online writing group, where all the participants wrote every Monday morning, and we left messages in a facebook space on our writing progress and challenges. I then interviewed her by phone for my blog because she seemed so interesting. Little was I to know that soon I would move from Far North Queensland to Brisbane and finally meet Dimity in person at the CYA conference. She was up from the Gold Coast for it.
I love this excerpt from her website which sums up what kind of person she is:
“Dimity Powell writes for children because she believes being a kid is one of the coolest things you can be…next to riding dragons and lying under palm trees. She believes in magic and that…
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