Ever wondered about Book Sellers and what motivates them, what keeps them going when the book industry seems such hardwork? Today I have Nicola Pitt of Love Books as my guest. She’s based in rural Australia, but that hasn’t stopped her becoming a growing force in the book world. Nicola who is Love Books? Tell Continue reading
Tag: Border Watch
The Artform of Re-Invention
I’ve done it! I’m a virgin no more. I’ve finally succumbed to a Tupperware Party. My credit card has taken a hiding, but I will shortly be the proud owner of several sets of durable plastic dishes that will change my life! Well, maybe not change my life, but certainly add some colour to my Continue reading
Cunning Camouflage
I know, I know. We always claim things are bigger in NQ, but today’s little visitor in the garden is the largest stick insect I’ve seen 🙂 Its camouflage was so good it almost fell victim to my clippers…
Lessons I have learned already in 2011…
Lesson One of 2011 When the email says there’s a critical update that needs installing in my WordPress Blog I will in future pour myself a glass of wine and ignore it. Lesson Two of 2011 When the computer says there’s a critical update for my airport-express hub I will pour another glass of wine Continue reading
Risotto and life
I’m home for  a brief fourteen hours, sitting in the North Queensland warmth and enjoying a long cold drink. On the other side of the kitchen bench is my husband patiently stirring a ham and mushroom risotto. (He’s a devotee of Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson so this is not going to be a low Continue reading
Merry Christmas!
Today is the day I have to finish my Christmas shopping. It’s going to be squeezed in around a trip to the hair dresser (bliss!), a trip to the doctor (sigh) and an eye-examination because all that reading in dimly lit simulators has played havoc with my eyesight (nothing to do with my age :-D) Continue reading
Architectural masterpiece
The nest is complete. All she needs now is her family. It even has a little awning which is handy in the tropics 🙂
Addiction of the perfectly acceptable kind
Today I welcome Elizabeth Martin to my blog. Another North Queensland writer, Elizabeth’s debut novel ‘The Coffeeholic and the Cafe’ was released by Booralong Press a couple of months ago. I had the pleasure of meeting Elizabeth at the wonderful Yungaburra Book Fair in October when she and Barbara Hannay very kindly chatted about their Continue reading
And it’s done :-)
BURNING LIES (Book 3 in the Border Watch series) is now a little over halfway and 50,000 words long! Am I excited? Yep!!! And exhausted… Tomorrow morning I conduct my last simulator session as a Check Captain on the Dash 8 -300. Tomorrow night I will be celebrating not just going home after three years Continue reading
NaNoWriMo and other matters
Oh my what a month it’s been… Apologies to those that thought I’d vanished off the face of the planet, but November is not about growing a moustache for me (I don’t plan on entering the Guinness book of records for facial hair feats…)it’s about writing 50,000 words. Every year for the past four years Continue reading