Melbourne
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Is this good tired?
This weekend I attended a writers retreat with members of the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild. We were in a house down on the beautiful, cold, rainy, Mornington Peninsula. Nineteen writers all together, inspiring each other and learning from one another. I came home today, and I’m super tired. Partially in the brain-full-of-new-information way, and partially…
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NaPoWriMo 2023
People who have followed by blog for a while will know that I have done a NaPoWriMo a few times previously. The basic idea is that I write a poem every day for the month of April. The woman who started it, Maureen Thorson, provides prompts each day, but they’re optional, so sometimes I don’t…
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Everything has it’s season
The trees around my house have noticed that it’s been autumn for three days and have thus shed a bunch of leaves. It feels very early in the year to be having autumn, but perhaps it’s more about Melbourne having not really had a summer. It was cold and wet until the end of December…
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Singular Purpose available to read in two weeks!
Singular Purpose, the sequel to my 2021 book, Singular Focus, is available to buy in two weeks! I’m very excited for you to read what’s been happening with Freya, Jacob and Dinah and what new trouble they’ve been dragged into. You can preorder ebook copies through all the usual places using the link here. Hard…
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Welcome to 2023!
The last days of 2022 have been really rough – Mum wasn’t well at Christmas and wasn’t able to participate in the family event, plus my back pain issue has been really fared up for some reason. I’m ready to welcome in a new year with hopefully a few less challenges. As usual, I’m setting…
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End of year round up 2022
This year has felt very long. I don’t know about anyone else, but it’s felt like 2022 has been going for a while. In comparison to 2020, it’s been pretty good but there have been plenty of challenges to work through. I changed jobs, or more accurately I changed employers for my day job; the…
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If I only could: or leaving things behind
Tuesday was the first day of November and for the first time since 2012 I’m not going to undertake NaNoWriMo. I started doing this marathon drafting challenge when I didn’t yet know how to write novels. A little over a year after I started this blog, the same time that I left a job I…
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Cover Reveal – Singular Purpose
I’m very excited to reveal the cover for my new novel, Singular Purpose! It’s due for release in February 2023, you can pre-order it here. Freya and Jacob thought their powers were gone for good after they saved the world, they were happy with that. Then one chilly spring morning Odin’s ravens reappear outside their…
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Long Drive Together
Today was dress/tech rehearsal time for the show ‘Long Drive Together’ a new two person play by Neptune Henriksen. I first met Neptune at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015, I had been recommended their work. This new work is a tender, complex look at grief and chanages in friendships. My role is doing the…
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Dawn Chorus
A cry rang out in the night ‘Damn it to Hades,’ he said, hopping Ares had stubbed his toe on the corner of the four-poster bed The god of war, all powerful in some situations, but still fallible in the half-light of the very early morning Aphrodite raised her golden head from the pillow, ‘why…
Fleur Blüm 