I checked in for my flight to Sydney today just as the Australian Federal Police arrived to put one of their money dogs through its paces! Lennie, the black labrador did a stirling job of locating the money – you could say he dug up pay dirt I guess 🙂 I didn’t realise Australia used Continue reading
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Yungaburra, book launches and editing…
Phew, what a busy last few weeks! Apologies for the lack of blogging, but life has been full. I didn’t realise how long a break I’d had until emails starting arriving asking if I was okay 🙂 Very happy to report I’m fine, my computer is fine, but my boss expects me to keep working Continue reading
Yungaburra Book Fair 18th September
Tomorrow I’m heading up the Gillies Range to the Yungaburra Book Fair. The historic village of Yungaburra perches on top of the Great Dividing Range with Tinaroo Dam at its back door. It’s a beautiful spot with some wonderful eclectic shops for browsing around and coffee shops serving delicious Tableland treats. I’m chairing a panel Continue reading
Definition of Tip Pruning…
Hmm, my idea of a light tip prune didn’t include a chainsaw… I should have known better than to leave my husband unsupervised in the garden 🙂
Shattered Sky
It’s official!! You may have thought yesterday’s rather lengthy announcement of the new government of Australia was the most important thing to hit the headlines. Well, as the saying goes, have I got news for you! The name for my new novel has been released. SHATTERED SKY. It won by a full length (without the Continue reading
F111s and River Fire
Last Saturday night we joined the stream of people heading to the Southbank parklands under an overcast and threatening sky. A chill wind curled in off the river swirling the smells of cooking through the crowd. For those that had been camped out since lunch time the relay run to facilities was turning into a Continue reading
Forbidden – the lucky winner
Sorry for the delay in announcing the winner of Christina Phillips fabulous new book FORBIDDEN…. The delay is all mine… It was very close, and indeed two people had nominated the same hero by another name, so we resorted to the random draw option. And the lucky winner is Louisa Cornell! Yay, Louisa!! Send me Continue reading
Family
My elderly mum (she’s 88!) is visiting from Brisbane. She was unwell at the start of the year and couldn’t be in Cairns for the launch of Border Watch. I missed having her there as she and Dad were so integral in developing my love of books and writing. Today we had coffee at Glaskins Continue reading
Coogee – My husband’s perspective of the RWA Conference
Page Three Girls
How wonderful! RWA made it to page three of the Sydney Morning Herald!!! Â I know my fellow romance writers and readers will already have read this article, but for those of you who might not have seen it here’s the link. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/daniel-puts-the-man-in-romance-20100815-1253f.html The story, by journalist Sacha Molitorisz, complete with some lovely innuendos :-), gets Continue reading