Shaunagh O'Conner discusses Doug MacLeod's career as a children's author and a TV comedy writer and says that 'despite his enthusiasm for TV projects, MacLeod admits that writing books is generally more satisfying than the demands of TV' (3). His latest novel, My Extraordinary Life and Death, is based upon a series of blogs that MacLeod wrote for the State Library of Victoria's Center for Youth Literature and 'is a fictional autobiography that matches life episodes to charming antique woodcut prints' (3).