April 3, 2018
After a long long time asleep in the ashes, I'm alive! so much has happened in the past three years that in some ways I feel like an entirely different person/writer now. However the urge to write and create hasn't changed one little bit so I'm back and ready to resurr...
March 28, 2015
Last year my co-writer and I won a professionally designed website in a competition at Kids' Book Review. It's wonderful when you win anything at all let alone something so useful and timely. Erica and I recently completed the first novel, 'Daughter', in what will be a...
September 8, 2014
I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of the upcoming anthology, "Eve's Requiem: Tales of Women, Mystery, and Horror". A story of mine, The Stars of the Garden, is included in this anthology and it will be my first ever story IN PRINT!
I've had a few pieces published in on...
May 25, 2014
Wow, I have been really slack with blogging lately. A combination of dissertation writing for uni, report writing for work and story writing for 'Story-A-Day-In-May' (SADIM) has been kicking me to the curb.
SADIM is just what it sounds like:
"StoryADay.org is home to a...
April 16, 2014
I'm excited to participate in my first blog hop with a range of very talented writers and friends, beginning with the wonderful Alexis A. Hunter. We're in a scribophile group together and I'm constantly astounded by the scope of both her imagination and her talent. She...
April 10, 2014
This picture says it all this week. I feel like I graduated from this course already. With an A+.
March 13, 2014
Life for the last year or so has been busy; I work, I study, I write and I try to have a 'life' away from all these things with friends and family. At times it's exhilarating and I feel like I'm doing something worthwhile and essential for the future of the planet, at...
March 8, 2014
Yesterday, I spent the morning at a teacher's rally, striking in response to the government's cuts & changes to education. In my classes, I've been discussing the West Australia shark cull, the pros and cons of killing sharks that cruise the waters close to swimming be...
March 8, 2014
Even though I’m still working on the first draft of my MG novel, being a visual person I wanted to create a cover for the book. I pictured this cover printed out, pinned on the motivational board above my desk, urging me on (along with pots of Earl Grey) to get this dr...
March 8, 2014
Question of the day:
If you could pick one place in the world to have a writing retreat where would it be?
I’m torn when it comes to this question because three settings instantly leap to mind:
1. A beach hut on an isolated, wind swept peninsula. My desk sits before a...
