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


Procrastinator! Who me?

It’s a day off and I woke to the sound of rain tap-dancing on the iron roof. All I wanted to do was snuggle back down and sleep, but if I didn’t get out of bed and see GW before he went to work our paths would barely cross again until tomorrow evening – and 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


National Year of Reading – 2012

It’s almost here! The launch we’ve all been waiting for. Tuesday 14th February is the start of National Year of Reading 2012. This wonderful initiative has been embraced by libraries and all levels of government right around Australia. Last Tuesday I went to a ‘meet and greet’ for the reading champions in Cairns  – there 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


Smell the roses…

Last night it rained and rained and rained some more – 190 mms in the rain gauge and the swimming pool is full again. This morning the sky is gunmetal grey with a pale blush of dawn, the grass is vibrant green, the plants are standing tall. Maybe the wet season has finally arrived?! I Continue reading