Carla Fitzgerald is author of the picture book Keeping Up with the Dachshunds and the middle grade novel How to be Prime Minister and Survive Grade Five. Carla has done many courses at the Australian Writers' Centre and, in this video, she talks about how she got her big break.
My Big Break: Author Carla Fitzgerald on how she got her book deals
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