Category: Writing Update

  • Pressbooks.com & Dark Oasis

    Pressbooks.com is still in beta, but it’s a way to publish your stories, easily. I decided to try things out with the fourth story in my paranormal romance series “Out of the Bottle”, DARK OASIS. So Dark Oasis now has its own pressbooks page, http://darkoasis.pressbooks.com/ . You can read the 13,000 words story there — it’s FREE!…

  • Meet Bilby

    Bilby the … ahem … bilby is my new writing mascot. He perched on the arm of my reading chair for the photo since that was a better light than the crowded corner of my desk where he now lives. I know I failed in the naming game. Give an author a break. We’re always…

  • No Post, Today

    I’m deep in Claytons Conf prep. Maybe (definitely!) a better organised person would have pre-prepared posts for today and Saturday (when the conference actually runs). I’m not that person. Soooo till next week when my brain is no longer whirling like a dust storm, no posts. Believe me, you don’t want to hear my level…

  • Romance Writers Share Love of Success

    I opened today’s The West Australian and what did I see on page 3? The best article and photo! Thank you, Lindsay McPhee, for writing such a great article, and to Ian Munro, who captured the sheer chattiness and laughter of a group of romance writers catching up. When the longer online article goes up,…

  • Judging a Book by its Cover

    I was reading my TI sheet for Courting Trouble which releases 1 October from Carina Press and I noticed that the graphic designer responsible for its cover is Croco Designs. This is wonderful news because they do some of the best graphics in the romance world. Wanted: One Scoundrel is one of their covers. You…