What I’ve Read – February 2020
Another month down and another 10 books added to my Read list! Plus a couple of books I started but haven't finished yet. I started reading The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell and am about half way through it, as well as listening to The Land Girls by...
Blind Date with a Book – Feb 2020
Last night, I had a lot of fun at the Reader's Emporium Blind Date with a Book. The last one I went to was nearly two years ago! One great drawcard was that the event is walking distance from home and it was a beautiful evening, so I decided to walk, though I made...
A year of finishing…
I see so many articles that say that in order to be a writer, you have to write every day... One of the biggest issues I have with this is that you end up with a pile of first drafts and don't have the time to edit! At least, I've found that's true for me as I juggle...
Writer’s Group Kickstarts for 2020
One of the best things about starting a new year, is starting Young Writer's Group for a new year. It's always so much fun to work with the young writers in the group, sharing with them life as an author as well as seeing their own writing develop over time. As is...
Alternative titles
Back in 2014, I published my first book, Swallow Me, NOW! It was quite a process of drafting, editing, illustrations, and beta readers. The story had been called Sam's Solution during this process, but it wasn't a title that I really loved, it was just what I came up...
What I’ve Read – January 2020
Happy New Year everyone. It's been a crazy start to 2020 with much of Australia on fire. About 18 months ago, we moved to Gippsland and there were fires in East Gippsland, a couple of hours drive away. Our week away was cancelled and there were many days when we were...
A new book is coming
Back in 2012, I entered a flash fiction competition with a story called My Princess Wears a Superman Cape. This is the story of two little girls who can't agree how to play with their Princess dolls, coming to the conclusion that girls can be whoever they want to be....
What I’ve Read – December 2019
Can you believe we're at the end of 2019 already? Picture books featured highly in my December reading. My kids gave me My Pet Star by Corrinne Averiss & Rosalind Beardshaw and Ten Minutes to Bed Little Unicorn by Rhiannon Fielding & Chris Chatterton for...
Successes for 2019
Children's author Julie Hedlund, challenged participants of her 12 Days of Christmas for Writers series to post SUCCESSES (rather than resolutions) on our blogs this year. She believes the way New Year's resolutions are traditionally made come from a place of...
Promoting books for the New Year
Lately I've seen a lot of posts from libraries and bookshops that feature their most popular books. These are the books that have been borrowed the most, or the books that have been bought the most. The lists have the books that people have already heard about through...