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…
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…
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…
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…
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.