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Jacaranda Week
As jacaranda trees burst into flower and carpet streets and yards in a squidgy bluey purple mess, this is a time of celebration and transformation. A Jacaranda Week means new clothes! Oh dear. It may also mean new shoes — and I’m not a fan of shoe shopping. It means you, too, are going to…
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DARE is free!
DARE. Sensual Tales of Fantasy & Suspense is my new paranormal romance collection and it’s FREE till Nov 16 — but only on Amazon! (sorry, exclusivity is the price of getting the book into Amazon’s lending library) Dragons and ghouls, angels and djinn, impossible heroes and the women who cause them all kinds of trouble. This is a…
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Friday Night Survivors’ Celebration
I don’t know about you, but this has been a killer week for me. So Friday night is the time to open the bubbly — both the champagne kind and the bubble bath — get out the emergency chocolate stash, order in take-away for dinner, and generally treat yourself to an I-survived-the-week party. My new…
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Pink Flowering Gum Week
The pink flowering gum is a stunning burst of colour, but that’s not all that bursts this week. Do you remember blowing bubbles as a kid? Not the magical soap bubbles that floated iridescent on the wind, but the kind that you chewed and chewed gum, blew and then, pop! Sweet, noisy and faintly disgusting.…
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The Curious Author Mind
If you’re a reader, you share a lot in common with authors. We’re all fascinated by and unable to resist the chance to slip into another person’s life. How does it feel in their skin? Fiction is the safe place to try out strategies for living. I still remember the time in my late teens…