Do you have any pets?

Oct 30, 2014 | Q & A

Our pet lizard

Our pet lizard

This week, I’m moving away from questions about Swallow Me, NOW! to answering a more personal question: Do you have any pets?

Technically, I don’t have a pet, however my 10 year old has a pet blue tongue lizard called Jazz. She has been with us now for about three years and is a surprisingly good pet. I wasn’t that keen on having a lizard as a pet to start with, however Mr Z loves them.

She lives in a terrarium in the lounge room and eats meal worms twice a day along with vegetables, bananas, smoothies and snails. Once or twice a year, she sheds as she grows, making a huge mess of scales that Mr Z has to clean up.

Jazz likes getting out of her cage to explore the house and has been known to help me as I write and edit my books. It’s interesting trying to write with a lizard running across my keyboard! She is a wonderful pet, and I’m sure she’ll feature in a book or story in the future.

Jazz writing a story?

Jazz writing a story?

Latest Blogs

Shiny New Story Syndrome

Shiny New Story Syndrome

I have seen a lot of authors post about what they call a 'struggle with shiny new idea syndrome'. I don't struggle with it. I embrace it! Last year, I came to realise that that is how my brain works. I will be working on one idea, then my brain will go 'nope, not...

How AuDHD Shows Up In My Reading

How AuDHD Shows Up In My Reading

The other day, I shared a bit about how ADHD shows up in my writing. Today, I thought I'd share a bit about how it shows up in my reading. I love books, I always have. They have been a means of escape and regulation for me for as long as I can remember. Even at...

My AuDHD Writing Brain

My AuDHD Writing Brain

I am an author and booklover, and I'm AuDHD. One way this shows up in my writing is that I can sit and write 6,000 words in an afternoon, as I did on Sunday! I found an old manuscript I wrote for the Chapter Book Challenge many years ago. It was very rough and I...