I’m chatting with the lovely Fiona Palmer today about bush fires and the inspiration for Burning Lies. Find us at http://www.fionapalmer.com/ and join in the discussion about bush fires and your memories of them.
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Cool Cats and a Hot Dog!
Today Zeus has the absolute pleasure of visiting LoveCats DownUnder. (I’m there to make sure he doesn’t get too frisky with the Cats 🙂 ) Love to see you drop by for a chat, or three! http://lovecatsdownunder.blogspot.com.au/
This not so secret aviation life!
Today I’m visiting Rachael John’s blog and I’m chatting about my secret life! (That would be my alter ego – Captain Helene Young, who flies Dash 8 aircraft all over Queensland!) And if that doesn’t sound interesting, not to worry there’s a copy of Burning Lies up for grabs, but you’ll have to drop by and Continue reading
Burning Lies Giveaway
Only five days to go in the Goodreads giveaway for Burning Lies. This competition’s restricted to readers in Australia and New Zealand so the odds of winning are great! Follow the link below to enter. Goodreads Book Giveaway Burning Lies by Helene Young Giveaway ends July 01, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Continue reading
When catching the fish isn’t the real prize
One of the tiny pleasures of spending so much time on flights being repositioned to different bases as a passenger, rather than working as the operating crew, is being able to watch movies. On today’s flight home the movie was ‘Salmon Fishing in The Yemen‘ and what a delight! I’ve always had a soft spot Continue reading
Polocross has come to town!
There’s something compelling about a field full of horses charging around in pursuit of a ball. Add in a beautiful North Queensland winter’s day and the Polocross at Trinity Beach was a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon. Not sure who won – can’t even pretend to know the rules – but there was Continue reading
Library Lovers
This morning a dedicated band of readers braved the rain and wind in Cairns to visit Smithfield library for a  National Year of Reading author chat with me. Thanks to Sivan and her team of librarians (they are so different to the librarians who had me terrified into submission when I was a child!) for Continue reading
Mission Possible
Mission Beach will always be special for me and this weekend added more great memories. GW and I headed south out of Cairns on Friday night so I could conduct a writing course on behalf of the Queensland Writers Centre on Saturday. The brand new Mission Beach Community Arts Centre hosted the day in their Continue reading
R*BY 2012
Today was supposed to be a no blog day. In fact it was supposed to be a limited internet day as I’m hurtling towards a deadline with the story still taking shape. I’m on reserve for flying hoping the phone doesn’t ring but I just have to share my good news! Shattered Sky has made Continue reading
Burning Lies
The new cover for Burning Lies is finished! I love the dramatic colours and the contrasts. What do you think?