Author(s): Goldie Alexander

General

Goldie Alexander, successful author, lecturer and teacher, shows us how to document our own life histories. This guide offers a practical and stimulating approach that will lead you through the creative process from research, structure, crafting, beginning and endings, to controversial issues and publishing.As well as offering practical hints for both experienced and novice writers, Goldie writes about her own early years and provides the reader with many examples of how these influenced her later work.As a true resource, this may be the only 'how to write a memoir' book you'll ever need. Goldie Alexander writes books, short stories and articles for adults and children of all ages.Fiction for older children.Hedgeburners - an A-Z PI mystery (Interactive Publications).My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove (Scholastic) This diary tells the story of the First Fleet and the hardships they went through.Killer Virus (Phoenix Education) 10 stories about boys for both boys and girls.My Horrible Cousins and other Girl Stories (Teaching Solutions) - Teachers' Notes.Bridging the Snowy.Astronet For 9-12 year old readers. (MacMillan Education Australia).Trapeze (MacMillan Education Australia 2005.
Fiction for younger children.Lame Duck Protest - Published by Interactive Publications.Seawall (Nelson Thomson Learning) 7-9 year old readers.Shape Shifters.Fiction for little readers.A Hairy Story.Captain Gallant (MacMillan Education Australia).Fiction for adults.Body and Soul: Lilbet's Romance.UnJust Desserts.UnKind Cut.Drama (co-written with Hazel Edwards).Right or Wrong 5 plays to make you think (Teaching Solutions).Dramatics (Teaching Solutions).Non fiction.12 Health and Understanding booklets (Blake Education).2 Health and Understanding Big Books (co-written with Shelley Underwood).The Business of Writing for Young People (co-written with Hazel Edwards).The History of Bread.An Interview with Cindy Centipede.Beyond the Thicket (Macmillan Education)