Romance, the Willy Lit Fest & High Tea

I am appearing at the Williamstown Literary Festival on a panel on Sunday 16th June from 3pm at the Croquet Club, with the amazing Ebony McKenna and E.B Tait to discuss what we can learn from the romance genre about ourselves and our culture. It’s going to be a fascinating discussion served up with High Tea and we’d love you … Read More

Grit – why writers need it

Just recently, I’ve had a lot of people ask me how I write, why I write, where I get inspiration from, and how it is I can keep going when the obvious rewards (publishing, money) are so minimal and rejection is so rife. All good questions and I’m not going to answer all of them here as I’d go on … Read More

A New Contract – Harlequin Escape buys the Witch-Were Chronicles

I haven’t posted for a long time, and one of the reasons is after advice from my brilliant agent, Alex Adsett, I became a bit of a writing hermit (when I wasn’t doing family stuff, working or doing presidential things for Romance Writers of Australia!) and was concentrating on finishing the Witch-Were Chronicles so we could go out with them and try to … Read More

Horse Riding Trek – Part 3 (Day 3)

We woke up on our third day to mist over the Howqua and the air clearer than it had been for days. It hadn’t been as cold during the night as it was up near Craig’s Hut and we’d actually managed to get a reasonable night’s sleep. The back burning smoke had blown over to the other side of the … Read More