Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
Festive Greetings, everyone! And goodbye 2015 – though some might say ‘good riddance’, including me! 2015 has been a year of great loss for me in many different ways. Of course because life is a gift I try not to dwell on what’s gone (not for long anyway), and instead…
Did you know I was on the radio last Friday? The lovely Rosemary Puddy at Northern Beaches Radio interviewed me about writing stuff for her radio program, the ‘Northern Beaches Book Club‘. Don’t worry if you missed it, as it’s now been podcast and you can listen to it here:…
Lucky me received a message earlier this week from the lovely Rosemary Puddy at Northern Beaches Radio, which serves the entire northern peninsula of Sydney, Australia. She wanted to interview me about writing stuff for her radio program, the ‘Northern Beaches Book Club‘! How exciting! The show is a lively,…
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,…
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…
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…
Over the last few years, I’ve found myself asking this question more and more, because of where I live and why. In his early twenties, my Australian husband went on a working-holiday adventure to England, which is where we met. I was the souvenir he brought back, he he! I…
