The A-Z of a Romantic Novelists Association Conference
A is for arrivals and greeting old friends B is for books – that’s why we are there. C is for chocolate – lots of it D is for dinner – a gala event – and for the delicious desert
Category: Writing
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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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Working the workshop.
This week I had the pleasure of travelling to Southampton to talk to the local RNA chapter about working with the media. I had a lovely time – thank you ladies and gentlemen. Many of you were kind enough to say that workshop had been very helpful. If you want to check out my…