You may have noticed – my website and blog look different now. I’ve been working on this for a while. I am currently writing books set in the Australian outback – so I wanted the site to reflect that. The background image you see is a photo of red soil taken on the edge of…
I’ve been so busy these past few weeks getting two books ready for publication, I barely noticed how close the holidays are. Bring Me Sunshine is now launched into the world. I had such fun doing that – thanks you to all my Facebook and Twitter friends who joined in. And thanks to everyone…
I’m really excited to announce that my new book is out there – making it’s way in the world and hopefully onto a Kindle or two. We have called it Bring Me Sunshine – because it a book about a girl who brings the light back into the life of a man who has…
I haven’t done a book post for a while.. and have been reading a lot of books. I thought, with the holidays approaching, this might be a good time to share some of them with you – in case you are looking for gift ideas for a booklover – or something to read…
Writing can be a lonely job. We spend most of our time chained to a computer, or a notebook, talking to people who exist only in our own heads. It has been said that the only person who really understands a writer is another writer. That may or may not be true, but…
I know – I’m too late for Halloween. But whatever the time of year – I do love graveyards. Old graveyards. Whether it’s a Neolithic burial mound, a stone cross on the moors or a marble mausoleum, each has stories to tell. It should therefore not be any great surprise that a certain amount of…
I know I promised you a graveyard blog this week… but I’ve got something better for you. Drum roll please. I have a new book – working title The Sun At Midnight – coming out in time for Christmas (which is probably a good thing as it is set over Christmas).
There’s bears in them there hills. Seriously. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park – which straddles the Tennessee / North Carolina border – claims to have bears. About 1700 of them. That was all I needed to hear and we were off, cameras poised, on a bear hunt. Entering the park, we stopped at the…
Museums are not about rare and fabulous objects safely locked behind protective glass. At least the good ones aren’t. Museums should be about people and the lives they lived. Museums should tell stories. And never have I found more stories in a single place than at the fabulous Museum of Appalachia in Tennessee. The…
