Bestselling Australian author
He’s got long ears, is made of chocolate and appears everywhere this time of year – No, I’m not talking about the Easter Bunnie – I’d like you to meet the Easter Bilby. That’s right – Bilby. For those who aren’t from Down Under, the Bilby is a small marsupial native to Australia. They…
The death this week of Mickey Rooney got me to thinking about old movies. I remember watching Mickey Rooney films as a child. They were in black and white and most seemed to feature horses. Or Elizabeth Taylor. Or both. I started to think about my favourite black and white films.. started googling and…
In the words of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – Oh, what a night! All the ingredients were there as we celebrated the launch of Flight to Coorah Creek
It’s done. The second Coorah Creek novel is now in the hands of my lovely publisher Choc Lit. And I am having what webmaster John calls my post-book meltdown. After months of working on the book, of living with the characters and their story every day – letting go is hard. So for the next…
Being a writer involves a lot of sitting at a computer in a small room talking to imaginary people in our heads. But every now and then, we get let out. This week was THE most glamorous event on my social calendar… the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards. But glamour isn’t easy – for…
Last weekend, I stopped by the Horizons Bookshop in Burnham. I met the owner, a woman with a real passion for books and reading, and it occurred to me how much we miss when we buy books online. Forget the argument about real book v e-book – that’s for another day. I’m talking about…
This week was the official release of the paperback of Flight To Coorah Creek. It’s always terrifying to send something you care about out into the wild world. As previously mentioned on this blog, when it comes to our books, we authors are an insecure lot. Always afraid that this time we got it wrong…
This started out as a blog about my writing space, but soon became a record of my never ending struggle to claim my space from an interloper… And there are, after all, not enough cute cat photos available on the web. I am fortunate to have an office in my house – it’s terribly cluttered…
Masada is a place of legend – and a place I had always wanted to visit – and on my recent trip to Israel, I did. It was spectacular in so many ways – it’s really hard to know where to start. There’s history and geology and tragedy and Peter O’Toole… I guess it…
Like much of the country, we found ourselves in the midst of a flood emergency this week. We had some very worrying hours as we sandbagged the house and watched the water rise. We were among the lucky ones – we escaped major damage. Many others fared far worse… As a reporter, I covered…