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Take Your Best Shot by Jacqueline Kent – Review
This is my final review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013, and I didn’t think I’d choose to review a biography. In a way, Take Your Best Shot. The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard is less a biography and more a recap of recent events in Australian Federal politics. As such, it’s clear and…
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Coastal Romance Holiday
Sometimes a coastal romance is right on our doorstep. In Fremantle, Western Australia, there’s a Boxing Day tradition of picnicking beneath shady pine trees, eating Christmas leftovers while the kids hit the water to try out their presents. But go back a few decades and this same quiet area just south of Fremantle city centre…
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Romance & the Australian Women Writers Challenge
I read a lot of romance novels. It’s what I write, so you could call it market research, but really it’s because I love their hopefulness, the emotional journey and the guaranteed happy ever after. However, because I read so much romance, I hoped to make my Australian Women Writers (AWW) Challenge about non-romance books.…
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Jobs for Coastal Romance Heroes
Alpha heroes don’t have a boss — or else they have one that they ignore. They are independent, powerful and capable. Whatever they encounter, they can master — except their women. And that’s a lot of the fun of a well-written romance. With Coastal Romance there is the theme of freedom that fits well with…
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Raising Steam
I interrupt the usual pleasant tenor of this blog to shout: Raising Steam!!! I can’t tell you how much I love Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and Raising Steam adds Steampunk to the mix. So excited! Today is release day for Raising Steam – just as soon as the rest of the world realises it’s 7…