No More Tomorrows for John Marsden? 🕳🐇🐰

John Marsden's The Tomorrow Series

I met John Marsden once at a writers festival when I had bought his book 'Everything I Know About Writing' and had it signed by him after a talk he gave, and which I wrote about in this old post -

A Cascade of Rabbits?

John Marsden (right) at the 2016 
Byron Writers Festival

I first heard of the passing death of John Marsden from a co-wortker about a day or two after he had passed died.

And later found out at his Wikipedia page that he had passed away on my own late grandfather's birthday.

And to my shame I only just finished reading 'Everything I Know About Writing' yesterday, having had the book sitting on a shelf since the day he signed it for me.

And the weird thing is that if I had have read the book any time before his death, I wouldn't have had the unbelievable number of synchronicities I had while reading this book.

Too many to name in this post. 

Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins and Hitchcock?🎥🚿🎬

Hawking died on the 14th of March

Einstein was born on March 14th:-P

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Plus, because I had been reading the book '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' I had read nearly 70% of the books John writes about in his book.

John Marsden
(27 September 1950 – 18 December 2024)

Ironically, the one book and author John mentions the most in his book is 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding.

A book I bought this year from the Op Shop, but am yet to read, although I have seen the black and white movie version of the book a while back.

I notice that on the book's Wikipedia page that the book is 70 years old this year.

When looking for my copy of 'Lord of the Flies' I found it in a pile of books I'm yet to read and on top of a book about Samoa, a country/island I haven't been to yet, but had been thinking about visiting maybe sometime in the future.

Someone had donated it to a street library, and I had picked it up on a whim.

John writes about the blowing of the conch shell in 'Lord of the Flies' and I noticed that the book on

Samoa has a bloke blowing a conch shell at the end of the book.

I was also surprised to see on page 108 of 'Everything I Know About Writing' that John had written about Raymond Moody's book 'Life After Life'.

I notice that John's last book was a non-fiction book titled 'Take Risks', which are the words he wrote to me when he signed my copy of 'Everything I Know About Writing'.

I guess that life and death are stranger than fiction?

Man dies after shark attack in Queensland

The Australian Way of Risk?