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Family and Community is everything.
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? I got some great news a few days ago. Rikki from Hawkeye Publishing, a growing independent publisher based in Brisbane Australia, called to let me know my manuscript had long listed in their manuscript development prize. I was so thrilled. The first […]
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A surprise visit to my inner critic
On Saturday I was fortunate to attend a two hour workshop at the GC Libraries Elanora branch with the amazing Edwina Shaw. I have been learning from Edwina from afar for years and was finally able to attend a workshop in person. The workshop was called How to Write your Novel. Edwina admitted this was […]
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I should say humility…
What’s the trait you value most about yourself? My mum taught me that humility is the most beautiful attribute a woman can have but I value curiosity. It doesn’t matter if I’m not the most intelligent person in the room if I am curious about other people and their lives. Curiosity may have “killed the […]
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Because Seth Godin told me to!
Why do you blog? I started blogging in 2018. I’d listened to an interview with marketing legend Seth Godin where he said blogging would make me a better writer if I was consistent. Consistency is the key to finding your voice and your audience. Most of my blogs are around 500 words and I write […]
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Amsterdam and beyond…
Don’t mind me, I’m just back from the red light district. None of us got up to no-good, I promise. The day started innocently enough at Zaanse Shans, the historical village style tourist attraction made up of a dozen or so windmills. The day was beautiful and warm and apart from the squillions of other […]
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Buying Books and Reading Books
Like a timely teacher, the book you need will appear at the right time. This time last year I attended the Fiona McIntosh Commercial Fiction Masterclass Conference in Adelaide where I bought a few books written by alumni. The lovely lady manning the conference book shop highly recommended Lauren Chater’s The Winter Dress. The cover […]
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