I’m guest blogging over at The Australian Bookshelf Blog. A copy of this year’s Romantic Book of the Year, Wings of Fear, is up for grabs. The competition runs until 30th August 2011. Drop by for a chat about Sense of Place! The Australian Bookshelf Blog
Tag: Australian Romantic Suspense
Romantic Book of the Year
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Quickie with me?
I’m visiting Kat over at the Book Thingo blog today and there’s a copy of Wings of Fear up for grabs! You’ll find the ‘quickie interview’ here : http://bookthingo.com.au/a-quickie-with-helene-young/ Look forward to your comments on their site 🙂 Helene
Pitch perfect
Are you heading to the RWA conference in August? Do you have one or more pitches booked? If so then this blog is for you! I’m the living proof that pitching can work. In 2008 I pitched to Bernadette Foley. In 2010 the book I pitched hit the shelves as Wings of Fear (Border Watch). I Continue reading
Familiar faces
It’s not always easy being a part of a family. There are demands on your time when someone becomes unexpectedly ill. Or the phone rings when you’re in the middle of cooking dinner or just about to rush out the door running late. Ageing parents become needy instead of nurturing as the roles inexorably reverse. Continue reading
Romance is bad for your health – apparently??
I can’t resist this one. My sister sent me a link to a story in The Australian about a British relationship counsellor Susan Quillam. Here’s the link : The Australian – ‘Leading medical journal criticises romance novels for promoting an unhealthy ideal for health and relationships.’ It would have been good to read Ms Quillam’s Continue reading
Heading west
If I don’t feel like a walk on the beach in the morning there’re always the hills and the paddocks. A large mob of roos call this field home and the horses who share it with them are amiable sorts. I love the way the cloud pours down the sides of the mountains at this Continue reading
Hard yakka…
Two cubic metres of mud had to be removed by hand then two cubic metres of stones, plus garden bed edging and pavers, had to be manhandled back in place. The nice man with the bob-cat who was supposed to be doing the work pointed out he’d sink up to his axles because the ground Continue reading
Puberty Blues with middle-aged hindsight…
I doubt there was any novel more quintessentially Australian for me as a teenager than Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey. I hated it, I loathed and I rejected every single premise in the story. Puberty Blues was a coming of age surfing story set in the Sunderland Shire with a couple of Continue reading
Unusual places to visit
What’s the most unusual place you’ve visited? I’m over at Kylie Griffin‘s blog today discussing that, amongst other things. I’m giving away a copy of WINGS OF FEAR and SHATTERED SKY so leave a comment to go into the running. If you already have the books, then feel free to hand them on as pressies! I’m Continue reading