Today I’m over on Felicity Pulman’s blog talking about writing, books and self-promotion. Felicity Pulman is the author of 14 books for adults and children, including A Ring Through Time, The Shalott Trilogy, and the medieval crime YA series The Janna Mysteries. Her novel Lilies for Love won the Society of…
Woo hoo! Today my talented Northern Beaches Writers’ Group and I were awarded ‘Best Book’ in the 2015 Write-a-Book-in-a-Day competition’s open category. What a thrill! Doubly so because this is the third year in a row we’ve been awarded ‘Best Book’. Hat trick! Every year for the past three years,…
This weekend was a bookish one for me… On Saturday I taught creative writing at the Mosman College. Then on Sunday I attended Book Expo Australia, where my Northern Beaches Writers’ Group and I had a stall to sell our books… I was also ‘booked’ (he he!) in to talk…
It’s the school holidays here in Sydney and, as a work-from-home mum, that means limited opportunities for me to seek out the quiet pockets of writing time I usually live to find. Luckily there have been plenty of other writing joys to inspire me between keeping kids and clients happy.…
Last Saturday I spent the afternoon at my local community college, the fabulous Mosman Community College in Sydney. For the past three years I’ve been a tutor there, teaching creative writing, blogging and social media several times a term. It’s great! I get to meet the most interesting people, talk…
This fantastic library meme is going around at the moment, reminding everyone about the valuable role libraries still play in our lives: I agree! Not only do I love libraries, their studious calm and mind-expending resources, but they’ve provided a safe haven for me many times over the years –…
Yesterday, my wonderful Northern Beaches Writers’ Group and I wrote a book in a day to raise money for The Kids Cancer Project. It’s something we’ve done for the last few years to support research in curing childhood cancer, and to give the children at Westmead Children’s Hospital a page-turning…
