Welcome to Paul Collins' website.  Here you can find all the latest news about Paul's books. Check out Paul's other site at www.paulcollins.com.au HEADLINES Trust Me! Launch   by Hazel Edwards (www.hazeledwards.com) I’ve never been in a mass autographing session for an anthology before. It was fun and efficient, until I signed on the wrong page. Ford Street publisher Paul Collins had organised about 30 of  the 50 anthology contributors which included well known writers, illustrators and poets to do a guest appearance and autographing session for the launch of Trust Me!.       Venue was the State Library at 4.15 sharp, following a conference which attracted primary, secondary and municipal librarians, among other guests.       Short stories are making a comeback, and an anthology of mixed genres, lengths and writers is VERY attractive. Especially when the cover is ‘Cool’  for teens. Isobelle Carmody’s introduction also entices.  P.S. The etiquette of signing is that you do it on the title page, unless there are multiple contributors and then they sign on their own chapters. I signed the name of my story in the table of contents, and a few others followed. Maybe those sigs in unique places will be worth a fortune in years to come, as it’s likely that this collection will be well read.  Trust Me! is distributed by Macmillan Trust Me! Edited by Paul Collins with an introduction by Isobelle Carmody Blockbuster anthology RRP $22.95 ISBN 978-1-876462-57-4 Publication date: May, 2008 Trust Me! Features 50 contributions by some of Australia ’s best known children’s authors, poets and illustrators. Original stories, poems and art cross all genres: mystery, romance, crime, fantasy, SF, humour and more. Contributors include: Andy Griffiths, Shaun Tan, Gary Crew, Phillip Gwynne, Catherine Bateson, Steven Herrick, Allan Baillie, Sofie Laguna, Leigh Hobbs, Marc McBride, James Roy, Mitch Vane, Michael Wagner, Kerry Greenwood, David Metzenthen and many others. Paul has announced a new publishing venture: Ford Street Publishing. The imprint has already published two young adult novels: Before the Storm by Sean McMullen and Pool by Justin D’Ath. For more details visit: www.fordstreetpublishing.com Paul was busy during 2007. He had fifteen books published by various publishers. A list of the titles can be found on the BOOKS page. Paul will have at least ten books published next year. These include Vampires of Quentaris, the last of the first Quentaris series; Book #2 of The World of Grrym, Lords of Quibbitt, in collaboration with Danny Willis; the first book in the second Quentaris series, The Spell of Undoing; book #4 in The Jelindel Chronicles, Wardragon; an anthology he has edited called Trust Me!, plus several chapter books and graphic novels. See Paul's interview on Station 31's NatChat show CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS Cover © Danny Willis Cover © Cathy Larsen Cover © Jeremy Maitland-Smith, design © Grant Gittus Cover © Jeremy Reston Paul and Isobelle Carmody chat with students at Kirwan State High during a joint fantasy workshop.