So 2026 is here. I’m not sure how that happened – the year has passed in a flash. In welcoming 2026, I am also welcoming a new book – and some new residents to Wagtail Ridge. Safe Haven at Wagtail Ridge is the third book set in this small New South Wales town. It’s good…
I’m doing a publication day happy dance today – for Tia and Max, the main characters in my Coorah Creek book Little Girl Lost. This book has been re-issued in e-book with a pretty new cover. I love this story so much… It’s a story of outback Australia and community, being lost and finding your…
I’m about to start on a new venture. I teach writing, and run workshops and retreats. In my day job, I do online training for a technology firm. So I now get to combine the two and launch my first Online Writing Lab This course is being carried out under the banner of the Romance…
My relationship with Jane Eyre goes back to 1943. No – I’m not that old. That’s when the black and white film of the book, starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine was released. I saw it many years later – and the part that really moved me was the time young Jane spent at the…
Somehow I’ve managed to release three books this year. One has been as Janet Gover and two as Juliet Bell, which is the pen name for my collaborations with my friend Alison May. Juliet Bell has an interest in misunderstood classic literature, and classic heroes who are maybe not so heroic… especially by today’s standards.…
I’m absolutely over the moon .. because Wedding Bells by the Creek has just received its second award nomination. It’s a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Award. Wow. The first book in the Coorah Creek series was also a finalist in this award and it’s so lovely now…
Are you sure you are ready for this? This is the first time I’ve been in this country for a big royal wedding. I was in New York when William and Kate married, and watching a royal wedding in the US is a whole experience in itself. They love a royal wedding over there almost…
Hats. It’s all about the hats. We have hats in Australia of course and I’ve worn a few. But mostly the hats I’ve worn have looked like this… Here in the UK – my hat wearing has mostly been at music festivals… and might not have been done in a ‘proper’ fashion.