Nanas With No Manners is out there!
Sometime last year I woke in the middle of the night with the title of a picture book rolling around in my head. The title was NANAS WITH NO MANNERS and that bizarre idea is now a book on the …
New covers and a new price for my titles for 9-12 year olds!
My bad. It has been FAR too long since I posted. I have great news – NEW covers for my titles by the fabulous Mark Beech. AND…my four books – My Best Worst Year, The Underers, Stowaway Daze, and Freakout …
Don’t miss the wonderful Suzy Cato reading Freakout Island!
Suzy Cato is a Kiwi treasure and has entertained and educated children for decades. In short, she is cool. So when she offered to read Freakout Island in its entirety for all of us during another lockdown I was honoured. Tonight, …
Publishers Weekly reviews The Underers
As you may well know, my latest books for children are written under my pen name, Justin Christopher – and here is a lovely review from Publishers Weekly. After moving seven times in seven years due to her cop father …
Save the date! April 15, 2021!
April 15-21 is World Creativity and Innovation Week. I’ll be interviewed by @bridgetphetasy about my creative process. We’ll talk about taking risks and daring to fail greatly. We’ll also talk about how I got into writing and how creativity helped …
Stratford, East London, 2001 – first day of door-to-door busking – sh(&^tting myself!
For the next five days, the ebook version of my travel book In Search Of Swingers is absolutely free. Here’s what it’s all about: Bestselling author Justin Brown (‘UK on a G-String’ and ‘Bowling Through India’) has the idea to …
Skid Row On Stage
Here is the Newsroom article of our bizarre, brilliant and beautiful time in Los Angeles. A transcript is provided below if you’re all clicked out. Skid Row is full of drugs and violence but author Justin Brown also found creativity …
Finding Hope on Skid Row
Tonight I head to Los Angeles! Disneyland? No. Santa Monica? Ah…no. Skid Row? Yip. Over the next twelve days, Professor Peter O’Connor from The Creative Thinking Project will work closely with downtown LA organisations working to aid and abet homelessness—among …
My Dog Taught Me How To Draw
My dog is a pain in the arse, but I love him. I love him because he’s instantly become a part of our family. Growing up, we always had a dog in our house, (RIP Holly, Amber and Charlie), but I’ve …