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Greetings to you all, and once again my thanks for your continuing messages of support for the Janna Mysteries. I truly appreciate hearing from you. One lovely fan has asked what readers can do to help with getting the series published. The only answer really is: buy more books. Tell your friends about the series,…
I’m not writing this blog as often as I should – busy, busy writing and doing other stuff – more of that shortly. First up, my thanks to all of you for your continuing messages of support for the Janna Mysteries. I’m on the case, but I’m afraid as yet I have no good news…
I’ve just had a fun day at Port Stephens, running two holiday workshops for high school students on ‘writing fantasy’ at the libraries at Raymond Terrace and Tomaree. I told the students a little bit about my books and where my ideas come from, and showed them a powerpoint display of some of the sites…
I hope you’ve all enjoyed the break over Christmas, and that 2009 is going to be a great year for all of us. 2009 has started on a high note for me with the launch of my new book, Turning the Page, part of the Making Tracks series published by the National Museum of Australia.…
Thanks to all of you who have sent me emails and left messages on my blog. Some of you have asked questions about Hugh and yes, Janna will meet him again in Book 5 – with some unexpected results! I’m still writing Book 6 and, I’m afraid, there’s no good news re publishers for Books…
Have just returned from two idyllic weeks in Vanuatu – what a fabulous place! It was a real ‘get away’ from it all, with a cruise around some of the more remote islands and then a stay at a resort near Vila. I spent most of my time in the sea, snorkeling the fabulous coral…
Many thanks to all of you who’ve written in with messages of support for The Janna Mysteries. It’s heart-warming to know that you really care what happens to Janna in the future. So do I, which is why I’m busy writing the last book (Book 6, Thyme for Trust) and why I shall do my…
So many of you have been emailing me to ask what’s going to happen in the next Janna Mystery and also ask when it will be coming out. I answered, in good faith, that I hoped Book 5 would be published next year (2009). Yes, there are lots of questions still to be answered before…
If any of you are going to be in Canberra over the long weekend and enjoy reading sci fi or fantasy, you might think about coming to Conflux, the sci-fi/fantasy convention held at the Marque hotel. I shall be conducting a fantasy-writing workshop on Monday afternoon which should be a whole lot of fun for…
Today (Saturday) I have lost my voice. Which is a big calamity and a disaster as I’m supposed to be talking to the Plantagenet Society today about Stephen and Matilda. I am SOOOO disappointed as I was really looking foward to telling their story: that poor little girl being sent off to Germany, aged 8,…