Does size matter? Writers are a bit obsessed by numbers. I’m not talking about sales figures for our books (although we can get pretty obsessive about those too). Get more than one author in a room and within a couple of minutes someone is going to mention “word count”. Word counts haunt our dreams…
After talking about heroes last week (a favourite pastime) I thought in the interests of equality this week I should talk about heroines… While it was easy to come up with great heroes and understand what makes them great – I found it a lot harder with heroines. The first thing I realised was…
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
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.
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 –…
It’s been a while since I did a look back at books I have been reading – which means there are rather a lot of books to look back at… so I’m going to hit the highlights. I’m starting with the book I just finished – The Runaway Actress by my good friend Victoria Connelly.…
It’s the end of another month (how did that happen?). It’s been a busy time for me of late – not as much reading as I would hope.. but here are some thoughts on the books I have been reading. Up Close – Henriette Gyland I’ve been looking forward to reading this book for a while..…
Hello from London… Most of the terrible things they say about the weather here are true – especially this time of the year… but that doesn’t matter. It’s great to be home. One of the first things I have done since arriving – and one of the best – is to attend the book…