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5,000 years of history in an afternoon
Continuing my present habit of visiting troubled parts of the world, last week I found myself in Jerusalem. The city’s history stretches into the distant past – but it seems always to have been embroiled in conflict… According to the history books (well – Wikipedia) it has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked…
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Friends, fiends, fangs and the apocalypse.
It was my month for catching up with the books my friends have been writing. And it’s always a pleasure to be able to honestly recommend a friend’s book. Of course – some of my friends are pretty fine writers.
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The armed, the scared and the very drunk.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I travel a lot in my day job – and sometimes it takes me to places I might not otherwise visit. These places can be unexpected in ways both good and bad. I’ve just returned from Erbil, in the Kurdish region of Iraq – and for…
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Short and oh so sweet…
This week I have been taking a break from the two – yes, I know – two novels I am writing to write a short story. I haven’t done any shorts for a while – and had almost forgotten what fun they are. I got my first break as a writer of fiction by…
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Starting Over…
A couple of years ago, I lost a book. Not an actual physical book – I take very good care of those – but rather, I lost a book I was writing. I’d written about 30,000 words (31,486 to be exact) and I stopped writing it. It wasn’t the book’s fault – life…
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Whose story is this anyway? Managing multiple points of view.
The people in my books are pretty pushy. Each one likes to make sure they get their story told the way they want it. That’s why I write books with multiple points of view. I saw a review of Farmer Needs A Wife which said something like.. “there are about 6 POV characters, but…
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You said Chook Lit – right?
I wrote two Chook Lit books before I even knew it existed. In fact, when I wrote my first two books, it probably didn’t exist as such. Now everyone from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to Time Magazine is heralding Chook Lit as the newest literary craze down under. So just what is it.
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Drum Roll Please – there's a new book coming your way…
I’m very excited to announce that my new novel Flight To Coorah Creek is to be published next year by Choc Lit. There’s really no prize for guessing where it is set. I love writing books about the Outback. In this one – I go even further out back than ever before –…
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Is Paris the most romantic city in the world?
In any list of the world’s most romantic cities, you will find Paris near – if not at – the top. While wandering around Paris last week ( raining and 10 degrees ) I began to wonder why. What is it about Paris that is so romantic? Paris has much to recommend it… To start…