and then i smashed out harry potter by jk rowling i've smashed out um her her crime series strike i've been smashing out patricia cornwell's uh scarpetta series and uh amongst that a bit of tolstoy and agatha christie and so on and now i'm so pumped to read honey where's fiction because i have a great respect for fiction authors because you can go to a level of detail and description that you just don't get and often you don't want in a non-fiction because you like get to the point tell me the piece but in fiction you kind of get to play around and describe more can you take us through what that experience is like when you're going from a how-to non-fiction narrative to more of a a descriptive fiction what is that like as an author

Oh, it's fun.

It's really fun.

And I think because my nonfiction are also memoirs, I held so much back and really struggled with how much I did share.

Whereas with Kookaburra, I basically, I decided to give up homeschooling.

I mean, I'm a single mum, work from home.

What was I thinking? Anyway, And the day I dropped my daughter at school on the first day, I was driving home and I thought, I might write a novel.

I'd say