BTS – Swallow Me, NOW!
Let's start at the beginning with my first book, Swallow Me, NOW! Back in 2012, I joined a number of challenges, including the Chapter Book Challenge. This was a challenge in March to write a children's chapter book, junior fiction, or middle grade book. The goal was...
What I’ve Read – February 2026
February was a big month for reading with 11 books, bringing my total so far to 18 books for 2026! This month there were audiobooks, picturebooks, novels, novellas, and a junior fiction thrown in too. Here's what I read: Belle's Secret by Victoria Purman - if you've...
Magic Lantern Story
Back in 2012, I participated in the first Chapter Book Challenge. This was one of the first writing challenges I did when I got back to writing fiction. The goal was simple, to write a draft of a novel for children in a month. I wrote a story where a kid named James...
Behind the Scenes
My first book was published in 2014, although I did have some stories included in anthologies before that. Since then, a number of books have been published including ebooks and writing resources. It's been many years since these were published, and there are newer...
New Book – Not Running Away
If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed that I have a new book available. This is a novella called Not Running Away, set in the fictional town of Sapphire Bay, which is loosely based on Cowes and surrounds in Victoria, Australia. This is the story of...
On creativity
Recently, I read 'The House that Joy Built' by Holly Ringland. There was a lot of good information in there, my favourite was her saying to 'create what you love', but a lot didn't ring true for me. I don't suppress creativity because of fear. I write and share,...
What I’ve read – January 2026
I ended up dropping the ball last year and stopped doing 'What I've Read' posts. I aim to fix that this year. As always, I've started off the year with a goal of 50 books in the GoodReads challenge. This is more to keep the challenge alive and make it easier to find...
Haunted Maze – Short Story
I am not big on horror stories or scary stories, however at the end of October every year, the kids I work with want to write spooky, Halloween stories. I give it a go, always with varying results. Given that today is Halloween, I thought I'd share one of my stories....
Favourite Picture Books
Following on from my post last week, I thought I'd continue by sharing some of my favourite picture books. I have quite a few to choose from, given that I have a collection with nearly 300 picture books... it was hard to choose ten to highlight, so there is every...
My Own Favourite Books
This past weekend, ABC Radio National had a countdown of their Top 100 Books. There weren't many that I have read, or wanted to read, and those I had, I didn't love. I thought I would share some of the books that stood out to me since I started tracking the books I...