Writing
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Barrett Women Series: Pre-order your ebook Now
This is just a quick update. My new novels will be available in exactly one month from today and I can now share links to the ebooks for pre-order. Book 1: Sins of the Father universal link, or Amazon link. Book 2: The Mother’s Faulth universal link or Amazon link. Paperback copies are still in…
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Barrett Women Series: Cover Reveal
I’m very excited to share with you the cover art for my two new novels: Sins of the Father, and The Mother’s Fault. These novels follow two generations of Barrett Women: Janine and Chloe. They can be read in any order, or individually. A reader discretion warning is in place both novels, they each deal…
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Another year over…
Each year I do a little wrap up post about the last twelve months and how they’ve gone for me. 2020 was, as I’m sure it was for many of you, a shit show. 2021 started out hopeful, I went back to working in the office sometimes, I saw a couple of Melbourne Comedy Festival…
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Whamageddon and other adventures
Some of you will be familiar with the game ‘Whamageddon‘. The challenge is to get through from 1 December until midnight 24 December without hearing Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’. There is no prize, I honestly think it’s impossible to do but it’s kind of fun to tell people when you hear it and you’re out. I…
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Kicking Goals for the Start of Summer
This year I decided to do a reduced word count goal for NaNoWriMo 2021 – I aimed for a measly 30,000 and I managed to get over 3000 more than my goal, which I was pleased with. My writing habit has certainly improved over the ten years of NaNoWriMo participation. I feel like my drafting…
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‘Consider the Watchmaker’ New Collection now available
My new poetry chapbook Consider the Watchmaker is now available in ebook format from Amazon and other good retailers. It’s a collection of eleven poems, some of which have appeared here on the blog, others which have not been published. I would encourage you all to head over to your preferred ebook supplier and purchase…
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NaNoWriMo 2021
Regular readers of the blog will know that I have been participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) every year since 2012. This year will be my tenth year participating. The stats on the NaNoWriMo website say I’ve written 466,945 words as part of my NaNo projects, which seems amazing and doesn’t include the words…
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Here we are again
It’s probably not news that COVID-19 is still a thing. In Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia are all in lockdown. We’re not allowed out except for the five basic needs; food, medical care, caregiving, essential work, and getting a vaccine. In a little over two weeks I’m supposed to be going to…
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Café Gummo
I stand on stageCables at my feetCan’t move farLest I fall over the edge Beats a bit outThe drums slowThe guitar fastI’m in the middle I look out at the facesAll turned to meSome seem tiredUninterested Will they regret itToo loud, too countryToo slow, too rudeWhat do they think? Last week I enjoyed itBeing in…
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NaPoWriMo Wrapped Up
Just a short post today to say once again I have finished up my annual challenge of National Poetry Writing Month – NaPoWriMo. Modelled after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, the idea is to write a poem every day over the month of April. I wrote every day, some of the poems were even…
Fleur Blüm 