"You've got to give Duncan credit, it took most people ages to realise the lederhosen was painted on and not real clothing..."
Jake Black is almost your average teen, fresh from high-school he jumps at the chance to move from Hobart to Adelaide, with the vague plan of taking engineering at the University. Like many of his generation who travel from home, he turns to Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. If only his mother wouldn't call him every day to check on his diabetes. Or use his sister's account to spy on his activities. Perhaps this is why his parents were so eager for him to attend one of the city's residential colleges, where he is surrounded by two hundred students who can keep watch. However, college is more adventurous than Jake's parents bargained for...
Ignoring the inevitable medical impacts of his new life style Jake struggles managing his mother and his new freedom, with mixed results on the public Facebook platform.
A combination of short story written in status updates and posts, and a one-act play for small and large casts, Jake's Page is a comic yet heart-breaking tale of a young, type one diabetic and his Facebook Page.
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Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
black & white illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 6 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-9875006-5-6 (9780987500656)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Emily Craven was first inspired to placed pen to paper when she was 12, after she learnt her favourite author, Isobelle Carmody, began her first novel at 14. Emily finished the first draft of her fantasy and travel novel manuscripts while completing a Bachelor of Science
(Space Science and Astrophysics) at the University of Adelaide. So technically, she can claim to be an astrophysicist (stars), geophysicist (rocks) and writer (crazy). She writes YA fiction, Fantasy and nonfiction.
Emily lives in Australia and yes, back when she was a teenager her high school had its own herd of Kangaroos. She's been to almost every continent (Africa being her weakness in continent-domination) and has the pretty photographs to prove it (though probably less
professional then Madeline Cain...)
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In 2010 Emily decided life wasn't interesting enough and decided trying to write a novel in a month. Definitely not insane enough to try writing a fantasy novel, she chose to do a comedy based in Facebook.
She created a Facebook event and threw her plot line to the winds, asking her assortment of friends to give her their best ideas, which included chameleons, umbrella's called Laani, triplets, a transvestite dwarf book club and a group of disturbed university students. Emily
sites November 2010 as the only month she could legitimately claim her hours on Facebook as "research".
An avid traveller and amateur photographer, Emily has travelled to New York City twice and plans to go back at least a dozen times more. All the photographs in this novel are taken by her.
She plans to take Madeline all around the world, so stay tuned for the next Grand Adventure!
THE SERIOUS STUFF
Emily is an author, speaker, innovator and the creator of the Story City GPS app (www.storycity.com.au) which allows you to take part in a real-life choose your own adventure. Emily was the first person in the world to create real-life choose your own adventures and is
the winner of the Brisbane City Council Innovation Award for her innovative storytelling projects.
Emily has spoken to teenagers and teachers across Australia (keynotes, workshops and masterclasses) on ebooks, digital and multimedia storytelling and is the digital writer in residence at Brisbane State High School. She also on occasion podcasts her work; her latest
is The Priori Podcast, a YA fantasy novel released a chapter a week on her website and iTunes (available at www.originalfantasy.com).
She was previously the Digital Producer for if:book Australia (The institute for the future of the book) and QLD Writers Centre and has been featured in Money Magazine, Channel 7's 'The Great South East' and in various Courier Mail articles. You can find out more about her as an author at her E-book Revolution website (www.ebookrevolution.com.au).
