DougMacLeod

My blogs

• Doug MacLeod - In the Front Room

Blogs I follow

• Authorness
• bean there, read that
• Books and Writing
• Christopher Cheng's Blog - - - - it's all about the books
• inkcrush
• Larry Buttrose
• Literacy, families and learning
• Literary Life
• Look At That Book
• Persnickety Snark
• Steph Bowe
• The Great Raven
• The Tales Compendium
• YA Reads

About me

Gender	MALE
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer
Location	St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Introduction	I write books and TV, mainly for young adults. My last book was about body-snatching. I live in St Kilda, Victoria, which might explain a few things.
Interests	Hiking, biking, music-liking.
Favorite Movies	Brazil, Zardoz, A Zed and Two Noughts, Zero Population Growth, Zentropa, Zelig, okay I cheated here and listed only my favourite films that have the letter 'Z' in the title.
Favorite Music	Bowie, Roxy Music, OKGO, the really amazing second movement from Beethoven's Seventh, actually most stuff by Beethoven, The Funeral March of Queen Mary by Purcell, anything by Cat Empire, anything by Cat Stevens, Tim Minchin, Radiohead, really an awful lot.
Favorite Books	Motherland by Dmetri Kakmi, anything by Sonya Hartnett, The Life of Pi, How I Live Now, I'm Not Scared, I Am The Cheese, The Glister, Figures in a Landscape, Michael Sweeney's Method, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Jetty Rats.

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

I would like to answer this with a poem what I wrote. 'Clomp Thump, Swamp Lump, Plodding in the Ooze, Belly Shiver, Jelly Quiver, Squelching in my shoes, Clomp Thump, Romp Jump, Mulching all the Mud, Boot Trudge, Foot Sludge, Thud thud thud.'