September 2025 Q&A with Jodie Fitzsimons on Wombat the Copycat

Welcome to Kelly's Writerly Q&A, a monthly blog series that is now a podcast!

Listen to my 11th episode where I chat to Jodie Fitzsimons, picture book author of Wombat the Copycat. This book will appeal to fans of Nick Bland’s The Very Cranky Bear.

We discuss:

•      Working under pressure and that end-of-year push

•      How Jodie approaches picture book writing

•      Writing on the kitchen table

•      Giving big ideas a crack

•      Book Week

•      The writing journal Jodie has created

•      Where you can find Jodie on socials and YouTube

•      How Jodie’s Bold Author, Budding Artists series is making multiple people's dreams come true!

Thank you for listening!

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Music credit to Levgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

Chapters

• 0:17 Meet Jodie Fitzsimons
• 1:01 On working under pressure and that end of year push.
• 3:46 How Jodie approaches writing a picture book.
• 5:39 Do the ryhmes come to you naturally?
• 7:01 Writing on the kitchen table and what Jodie is striving to achieve now she has an office.
• 10:25 On giving big ideas a crack.
• 13:31 Jodie's first Book Week
• 14:08 All about the Writing Journal Jodie has created.
• 17:10 How you can find Jodie.
• 18:48 How Jodie is making so many people's dreams come true.
• 20:18 Sign up for Write Till Christmas