Suzanne Brandyn

My guest today is the lovely Suzanne Brandyn, a women who shares my love of flying and also romantic suspsense. It’s no surprise we’ve become cyber buddies! Suzanne has several books already available with more to be released this year. She’s dropped by to chat about everything from genres to school reading habits. Hope you Continue reading


Bella’s Run

My guest today is debut author Margareta Osborn who I met for the first time in person at the RWA conference last year and she’s as bubbly in person as she is on the page.  Her novel, BELLA’S RUN, is already earning rave reviews as a fresh voice in Australian Rural Fiction. Enjoy! Margareta, welcome Continue reading


Word in edgeways?

I once had a boss who maintained that a woman is issued with a set number of words per day and god help the man who doesn’t allow her to use them all… I think he was trying to say I talked too much… Who me? Whatever the truth, Lisa Heidke and myself are using Continue reading


Kaitlyn’s country

My new book, Burning Lies, is set largely on the Atherton Tablelands, to the west of Cairns. The landscape is different to the coast – the light’s softer, the greens are more olive, the earth a richer red and the sky is a paler blue. GW and I wandered around up there a couple of Continue reading


Pardon my absence…

My blog’s a little quiet at the moment so I hope you’ll forgive me. I haven’t forgotten you, but I need to clone myself to get everything done in the next few weeks, including page edits for Burning Lies! Meanwhile I’m being diverted by our search for the perfect catamaran so we can start the Continue reading


Good news day

Yesterday was a very good day. Started well when both GW and I remembered it was our 24th wedding anniversary – who could believe we looked so young when we married all those years ago…  Unfortunately we both had to work, so that put a tiny dampener on the day. Celebrations were very low key Continue reading


It’s Australia Day! Work or play?

It’s Australia Day. Yay, a day off, party time! Lamb, beers, prawns, sleep in. How are you spending it? The funny thing is I know more people who’ll be working on Australia Day than people who’ll be having a day off.  So that got me thinking. What does it actually mean to us? Cheap lamb, Continue reading