Recently Renee Price from Create It Kids asked me “How do you pronounce your Surname?”
It’s a Dutch surname that’s pronounced “Gizz-Burz”. The G is soft as in Go.
When my Opa (grandfather) came to Australia, immigration asked what his name was, and they wrote is as Gijsbers. It’s meant to be spelled with a y and an umlaut, however immigration spelled it with an i and j.
My father came to Australia when he was three and doesn’t speak much Dutch, I can’t speak any either.
This weeks book worth reading is Gnoming About: Tree Mail Adventure by Liv Lorkin. Three gnomes, Daisy, Lucky, and Rocky, are on the hunt for a missing gnome. They need to retrace his steps, find some postcards, and spot some mushrooms, but not everything is as easy...
I'm excited. I have a new book out today. This is another romance novella - A New Chapter at Elmsbury Bookshop. I started writing this story back in 2016. I got an idea and wrote 10,000 words in a couple of days. At the time, I was writing more stories for children...
How is it the end of April already? This year is flying by! Somehow, April brought me to 41 books read for the year... a mix of audiobooks, picture books, and others. Here's what I read: Digging Up Trouble by Kitt Crow - an audiobook that has a fun cast of characters,...