Writing
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First Draft Completed: Check
Friends! Readers! I’m so pleased to tell you all that I have successfully finished the first draft of my branching narrative/choose your own adventure style detective novel: Carter and Carter Detective Agency. I have also successfully achieved the goal I set for myself for NaNoWriMo this year: 30,000 words. Awkwardly, I finished the first draft…
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November Writing Challenge
Some of you who may have been following my blog for a while will know that November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The full challenge is to write 50,000 words in a month, and while I’ve done this several times, in the last couple of years I’ve been more modest in my goals.…
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Launch Day: Winds of Change
It’s out in the world, Winds of Change: a steamy paranormal romance collection. I’m very pleased to be part of the anthology of ten authors that’s not available on Kindle Unlimited and Amazon. We had a fabulous book launch on Halloween night in Melbourne at the Wheelers Hill Library, I wasn’t able to attend because…
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Winds of Change: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Collection
I’m going to be in an anthology! I’m thrilled to reveal the cover for the upcoming Winds of Change collection, in which my novella, “Pillion for a Police Officer”, appears. You can see below the gorgeous cover image, put together by the talented Charmaine Ross. This collection contains ten books, by ten different authors, all…
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Trope Actually Wrap Up
I’m sitting at the airport waiting to fly from Adelaide back to Melbourne after an epic three days of writing content at the Romance Writers’ of Australia annual conference, this year called ‘Trope Actually‘. Friday, I attended the academic symposium portion. I enjoyed presentations from several academics who were researching/had researched romance writing and related…
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“Singular Focus” Winter* Sale
Friends, it’s cold in here in Melbourne. I know many people living in snowy areas think we’re all weak, but my nose is drippy and my breath is visible so I think it counts. In honour of this time for being inside with tea, blankets, and books, I’m having a sale on my book, Singular…
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Winter Writers’ Retreat Run-down
This weekend I have been on my annual writers’ retreat with The Melbourne Romance Writers’ Guild (MRWG). We went to the Whitehall Guesthouse in Queenscliff, a three-storey weatherboard venue with plenty of bedrooms and lots of space (and if you believe some of the attendees a ghost, but I didn’t encounter it). We had twenty…
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Lift Off
My newest release, Morgana, My Queen, was launched last Friday at the Northcote Library. I had a fantastic turnout, thank you to all my friends, colleagues, and fellow writers who attended. Here are some photos. What a wonderful, exhausting, and exhilarating night. I would like to especially thank my MC, writer Sarah Lempke. I hope…
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Mayday, Mayday, It’s (a)Live!
That’s right, it’s release day for my latest book, Morgana, My Queen, a collection of five horror novellas. For those interested I’m hosting a book launch at the Northcote Library, 6:30pm, 3 May 2024. A conversation with the author (me) and a reading from the book will be followed by a book signing and the chance…
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