George Ivanoff – The Boomerang Books Blog https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:51:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24 Revisiting The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/revisiting-the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/2018/12 Sat, 29 Dec 2018 07:47:55 +0000 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=37448 The Hitch Hikers sci-fi comedy franchise (for want of a better word) by Douglas Adams is instantly recognisable and much loved. Beginning as a radio series in 1978, it has gone on to become books, further radios series, a television series and a film. My relationship with it is somewhat patchy. “The ships hung in … Continue reading Revisiting The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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]]> WIN copies of PERFECT WORLD and BEAST WORLD https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/win-copies-of-perfect-world-and-beast-world/2018/04 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/win-copies-of-perfect-world-and-beast-world/2018/04#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:14:12 +0000 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=35880 Perfect World and Beast World are the first two books in my new series, OTHER WORLDS. Aimed at children eight and up, they are about kids who find mysterious keys that open doorways into other worlds – thrilling adventures follow. For more info, check out my previous blog post. But now, here’s your chance to win … Continue reading WIN copies of PERFECT WORLD and BEAST WORLD

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]]> https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/win-copies-of-perfect-world-and-beast-world/2018/04/feed 1 Through the doorway to OTHER WORDS https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/through-the-doorway-to-other-words/2018/04 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:34:48 +0000 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=35867 A perfect world full of identical clones. Steampunk London inhabited by well-dressed, talking animals. Robots and humans fighting a war in virtual reality. A seemingly ordinary world threatened by a mysterious darkness. To discover these worlds, all you need is a key to open a doorway. This is the setup for my new series of … Continue reading Through the doorway to OTHER WORDS

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]]> Top Reads of 2017 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/top-reads-2017/2018/02 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/top-reads-2017/2018/02#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:29:01 +0000 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=35334 I’m a little late with this… but, better late than never. The year of 2017 was rather busy for me and while I didn’t do much blogging, I did a lot of reading. I may not have managed to keep up with all the new releases that I wanted to read (I still have a … Continue reading Top Reads of 2017

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]]> https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/top-reads-2017/2018/02/feed 2 A Bionic Wonder Comic https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/bionic-wonder-comic/2017/12 Sun, 31 Dec 2017 04:35:10 +0000 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=35109 Get set for some 70s retro comic book bizarreness, as Jaime Sommers from The Bionic Woman television series meets the 1977 small-screen version of Wonder Woman. It’s a completely oddball concept… and yet, it works! Wonder Woman ’77 Meets The Bionic Woman is a graphic novel that collects together issues 1 to 6 of the … Continue reading A Bionic Wonder Comic

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]]> Fabulous Footy Favourites https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/fabulous-footy-favourites/2017/08 Sun, 27 Aug 2017 05:51:19 +0000 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=34268 I’ve got a footy-themed kids book hitting the shelves tomorrow. So I thought now would be a good time to share with you some of my favourite Aussie Rules Football books, presented here in order of audience, from youngest to oldest. Great Goal! Marvellous Mark! written by Katrina Germein, illustrated by Janine Dawson (2017, Ford Street … Continue reading Fabulous Footy Favourites

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]]> 2016 – The year that was https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/2016-the-year-that-was/2017/01 https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/2016-the-year-that-was/2017/01#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2017 02:00:10 +0000 http://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=32728 2016! What a year! Many people view it as one of the worst in recent history, with the death of numerous influential celebrities and some worldwide political craziness. And in a lot of ways, it certainly was. But, personally, on the book front, it was a pretty awesome year for me. I read some damn … Continue reading 2016 – The year that was

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]]> https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/2016-the-year-that-was/2017/01/feed 1 Words and Pictures https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/words-and-pictures/2016/12 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 05:17:25 +0000 http://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=32564 Words and pictures can be so much more powerful together than apart. Comics, graphic novels, picture books, illustrated novels. So many possibilities. As a writer, I love art. I love handing over my words to see what an illustrator will do with them. I had my first picture book published in October this year – … Continue reading Words and Pictures

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]]> Media Tie-in Books https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/media-tie-books/2016/12 Thu, 29 Dec 2016 07:49:39 +0000 http://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=32546 I’m a bit of a pop culture junkie. So I tend to read a fair few books that are tied in to other media – film, television, games. Mostly Doctor Who, as this is my particular area of obsession. This year I’ve read less than I normally would. But here are a few that I’ve … Continue reading Media Tie-in Books

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]]> Anthologies for Christmas https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/anthologies-for-christmas/2016/12 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:17:03 +0000 http://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/?p=32428 I love anthologies – books collecting together short stories from numerous authors. I love them as a reader. And I love them as a writer. Anthologies have a lot of things going for them… Anthologies make great tasters. They are a wonderful way of trying out a whole batch of authors without having to commit … Continue reading Anthologies for Christmas

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