In the lead up to Christmas I seem to have no time for any creative writing; I spend my time creating lists instead! So I thought I’d share with you a short article I wrote about lists, that was published in The Australian some time ago but is certainly applicable during the festive season –…
Very happy that my blog auto-publishes to my twitter feed and my new facebook fan page automatically. This will make things so much easier for me now.
My apologies to reader (and fan of The Janna Mysteries) Kate Harris, for being so tardy posting this news. She wrote a while ago to tell me that another way of ordering Books 5 & 6 of the Jannas (Sage for Sanctuary and Thyme for Trust) is go into Book City and ask if they’ll order them…
Yesterday I attended a beautiful ‘farewell’ afternoon tea at the gorgeous Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, to say goodbye to the talented Linsay Knight, children’s publisher of Random House Aus., and to wish her well in her retirement. Linsay picked my mss from the slush pile more than 10 years ago (Shalott), and has been…
It’s been a full on but incredibly interesting weekend spent at the NSW Writers Centre with tutor Jude McGee giving us an overview of the publishing/book selling industry in general, how it works and how to get your mss before an editor, with some frightening statistics about closing bookshops and declining book sales but also…
My fabulous webmaster, Jason Rhodes, has done a makeover of my website and connected me to the 21st century – fantastic job, Jason! So if you haven’t already done so, do lob in and have a click around, there’s lots to see. I still need to work out how to operate some of these tag…
The video book trailer advertising the series is finally done! Do let me know what you think. It is such a milestone, and such a pleasure to know that the series is now complete and available through amazon (either printed or e-book versions)and that fans of the series are really enjoying reading the last two…
And what a wonderful weekend it was too! So many readers and writers of crime all come together and such a buzz swapping notes about favourite books and favourite authors. The greatest difficulty was choosing between panels when there was such a wide range of exciting topics and authors to choose from! I was lucky…
… TO GET A GOOD READ. I have this logo front and back on my Sisters in Crime t-shirt which I’ll be wearing at the SheKilda Convention 7-9th October in Melbourne. It’s going to be HUGE, a must-go-to venue for readers and writers of crime fiction and non-fiction. I’m looking forward to my panels, talking…
There’s a lot of interest in my experience of publishing the last two Janna Mysteries through createspace, and as a result I’ve been asked to contribute to several wonderful book blogs that feature books, authors (not only me!) resources for readers and writers and other really interesting information. Please check them out (along with my…