Blending science and creativity to inspire change
Atom-smashing journalist turned award-winning children’s author Cristy Burne blends science and story to inspire change.
Cristy’s career covers six countries, three degrees, and jobs that include patent translating, magazine editing and journalism at CERN (home of the Large Hadron Collider!), exploding things at Questacon (as part of a science circus!), and resource recovery in the back of a ute (as a bin collector!).
Cristy works with the intersection of story, science, technology and creativity. She has also bungee-jumped, sky-dived, back-packed and (accidentally) exploded sewage on her neighbour.
Visit www.cristyburne.com for more information.
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August 24, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Hi. I’m Kirsten, I saw you at canning bridge library for apple cross primary school in perth…
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August 20, 2013 at 4:50 am
Hi
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June 27, 2013 at 11:15 am
i love your books uspesherly takeshita demons
🙂
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August 16, 2011 at 7:02 am
Hi Zack,
Yep…I know (and subscribe to) your blog! Some very spooky stories are told there!! I didn’t know you were a JET though…
I spent this morning scaring some Year 5/6 students with some of Japan’s yokai and legends and they came away pretty excited. It’s such a rich subject area. I keep learning more and more and loving every story!
I hope you enjoy the books….
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August 15, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Hi Cristy!
I just found out about you. I haven’t read any of your books yet, but they sound really fun! I am a former JET as well, and I have kaidan-themed blog.
http://www.hyakumonogatari.com
I look forward to checking out your books!
Zack Davisson
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June 7, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Thanks Takis!
The Kwaidan exhibition looks amazing:
If any of you lovely blog readers are in Japan and interested in the man who first translated so many of Japan’s spooky ghost stories, you will love to check this exhibition out: bit.ly/mPB88J
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June 4, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Hi,
Please send me your email.
I will like to send you the press release for Kwaidan exhibition
Takis
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March 12, 2011 at 6:03 am
Hey Caz! Great to see you too, and your blog is terrific. I just discovered your post on Gordon Korman’s presentation: I love his stuff! (The link is here: http://cazwilliams.blogspot.com/2010/08/gordon-korman-writing-for-kids-three.html)
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March 11, 2011 at 6:13 am
I’m excited to think that a ‘Filth Licker’ could possibly come to my home and lick my bathroom clean 😀 YEH! Look forward to reading. Great hearing you talk at ANWOS last night.
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December 19, 2010 at 10:17 am
Hey Kate!
That’s great to hear…I’m pretty excited by The Filth Licker coming out next year…I think it’s even more exciting than Takeshita Demons 🙂 And I love the Filth Licker 🙂
I’m so glad you enjoyed Takeshita Demons! Thanks for letting me know 🙂 🙂
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December 18, 2010 at 11:22 am
hello, you dont know me but i am a really big fan of ur book Takeshita Demons. I got it from the program Booked Up. Its just brilliant. I finished it all in just one day. I cant wait until your next book comes out.
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December 5, 2010 at 11:56 am
Hey Jose!
Great to hear from you! How’s New Orleans? And what’s sequential art? Let us know if you’re ever down Australia way! And spread the Takeshita Demons word: I’ll see if I can swing a book tour to the US 🙂
xx
Cristy
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December 4, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Hey Cristy,
Jose here from New Orleans via Saga ken. Congrats on your success. Used to work at a children’s book store in New York in 2004. Would’ve been fun if you had some stuff out then to do a signing. Working on some projects myself but mostly in sequential art. Writing is definitely the funner part of the job ne!
Yours,
Jose
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November 25, 2010 at 11:47 am
Hey Troy! Great to hear from you 🙂 Hugs to you and yours! Will be in touch 🙂
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November 25, 2010 at 9:57 am
hey Chriss hope this finds you and yours well awsome stuff on the books mate allways knew you had them in you. drop me a line and we will have a proper catch up
talk soon
Troy
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November 19, 2010 at 8:33 am
YAY! Thanks everyone for your comments 🙂
Sam: Reading books is the biggest inspiration for writing books: I love being in another world and it’s very cool to think about making your own world.
Fahima: Yes! Secret books x3 are in my bottom drawer, but at least one of them will never get published (I used ideas from bits of it to write The Filth Licker)
Happy reading!! (What are you reading now?)
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November 18, 2010 at 8:38 pm
i love your books and im a MASSIVE FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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November 16, 2010 at 8:32 pm
u killd it proper ritin a paragraph
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November 16, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Hiya im a big fan of ur books !!!
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November 16, 2010 at 8:19 pm
hiya i love your books dere ssssssssoooooooooooooooo interesting do u have any secret books at the bottom of your drawer
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November 7, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Hi Can You tell me what started making you think about writing books or what inspired you? 😀
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April 1, 2010 at 2:40 am
Well hello there!!
Thank you for your kind words. Sorry for the delay I am actually on mat leave from CSIRO. I have 6 month old little girl. these days. I see you are also in the family way 😉 Great blog by the way.
I will send a proper update later….in the meantime really nice to hear from you. Can you please send me your email address?
Tanya
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January 7, 2010 at 11:35 am
Hi Megan,
Is this the Megan Caino from Hollywood High School? Trying to find you on Facebook so I can tag your pics for you to see etc…
Cheers,
Sara
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May 21, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Doumo arigatou gozaimasu Yuichi-san!
Great to hear from you again…and thanks for your support! It’s amazing the places the JET programme has taken me…this is another on the long list! Thanks for all your efforts!
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May 18, 2009 at 7:40 am
Omedetou-gozaimasu ! Christy-san.
Yuichi @ JET Programme Coordinator in WA
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May 17, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thanks Kim and Megan! (and to Nick for spreading the word :-))…It’s crazy (but fun) to be birthing a child at the same time as a book…one thing I’ve wanted for a long time and the other just kind of crept up on me.
And however hard it seems to try and get a book published, I think having a baby will be a whole lot easier! I look forward to your advice Megan!
Mata ne!
Cristy
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May 16, 2009 at 8:39 am
Hi Cristy,
Congratulations on your book, I look forward to buying it for my kids. Wow! We got an email from our local JETAA President, Nick John.
Congratulations for your family news also. Its great that the book has been signed up, hopefully you can rest and enjoy.
Kind regards,
Megan
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May 14, 2009 at 3:02 am
Hey Cristy, hisashiburi!!
Just got an e-mail from the Jet alumni about your recent success with your book. Big congrats for that, and it seems to not be the only thing that congrats are called for 😀
Hope I get a chance to read the book once published!
And I just had a quick look at your blog, noticed your comment about Under The Mountain by Maurice Gee being a fave of yours as a kid. Not sure I read that one, but his Half Men of O was my fave as a kid. Nice!
mata ne!
Kim
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