I was shocked by the devastating floods that hit Queesland shortly after Christmas. It’s very hard to be so far away and see such terrible pictures of the places you know. Luckily, my family and friends escaped without any serious damage. Then a friend alerted me to a project called 100 stories for Queensland. The idea was…
Well – the blog is back for 2011. I’ve been quiet for a couple of weeks – because Webmaster John and I have been busy redesigning my wesite. I love the new look – and hope you do too. All of the pictures we’ve used for the banners and the footers on each page were…
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas… …and a Happy New Year. Janet X
I’ve just been to Montreal and back – on a train. The journey was over ten hours each way – and I loved it. Seriously – I did. It’s a great way to see a new country. And there was SO much to see. The trip passed really quickly – well, apart from the…
It’s hard for someone who hasn’t grown up with Thanksgiving to understand the place it holds in people’s hearts here in the USA. However, I have seen images of the Macy’s parade on TV… so was not about to miss the chance to join in the fun. line The giant balloons for the Thanksgiving…
On Sunday, I visited a craft fair – with some truly beautiful things for sale – but strangely enough, I didn’t feel inspired (nor did I buy anything) until I left the huge modern conference centre and wandered up the road to a flea market. Not just any flea market – this was the Hells…
My greatest fear is not the dark, or enclosed places or even spiders. It’s being trapped somewhere with nothing to read. It happened to me once. On a delayed flight, I finished the book I was reading half way into a four hour journey. I started prowling the aisles, looking for any newspapers or magazines…
Last weekend, we hired a car and headed up the Hudson Valley looking for some of that autumn foliage for which this part of the world is justifiably famous. It was pretty spectacular. We also found a wonderful story about how one clever man beat prohibition… and I’m not talking about Al Capone.
My first US writers’ conference this past weekend was quite something. The New Jersey Romance Writers conference is one of the biggest of the RWA chapter conferences – somewhere around 300 writers took over a hotel and conference centre for a weekend devoted to writing, reading and romance.
