Bestselling Australian author
This week saw the annual Romantic Novelist Association Awards – the RoNAS. It’s THE event of the year for a lot of us. A time when the RNA honours the best of the best. As always, I was one of the workers… which means I was so frantically busy, I didn’t get to talk to…
Like so many things, it all started with Leonardo da Vinci. Then it took a few hundred years for the rest of the world to catch up. I’ve just spent a wonderful day wandering around the museums in South Kensington – something I highly recommend. There’s far too much to see in one day and…
I’ve just spent a few days in Doha, a city renowned for fabulous architecture but not so much for public art. The public art tends to be along the lines of a giant clam shell with equally giant pearl in the middle of a roundabout. At least it used to. I spent one evening in…
I had it brought home to me this week how totally we now rely on technology. My website went down. Yes this one, which I assume is back up or no one is reading this. With it went my main e-mail. It was down for more than two days. Actually – worse – it was…
It seems only fitting that on Valentine’s Day, I should do a blog devoted to Romance – ah, but not just any romance. This is all about my love affair with books – specifically books about relationships and love, because after all our relationships with other people are the most important part of our lives.…
I stepped back in time a little this week – back to my days as a journalist when I was doing radio news reports. But this time – I was on the other side of the microphone. Some of my writer chums and I went over to Radio Marlow FM to talk about writing romantic…
I’ve just done something I have never done before – and probably never thought I would do… I have joined the mosh pit at a metal gig. Ok – let set a few things straight. Regular readers of the blog will know I am a big fan of live music – and it’s a rare…
I have just got to stop going to Wool and knitting shows. Last weekend, I was at the Waltham Abbey Wool Show. The thing about events like this… many of the stall holders are real crafters. They spin their own wool and hand dye it – often with natural dyes, not commercial chemicals. And they…
I lost one of my heroes this week – the amazing David Bowie died. He was 69 and had just released his latest album, Blackstar. I’m listening to it as I write. Bowie’s music has been with me all my life, since I was living in a tiny room at university, and first heard someone…
I remember as a child being chastised by my teachers for using made up words. If it wasn’t a ‘real’ word, I wasn’t allowed to use it in my school work. To be fair, those teachers were trying to give me the kind of education that would allow me to make a living when I…