Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
In celebration of the launch of my new YA novel When Dark Roots Hunt, I’m organising two giveaways! FREE BOOK! If you’re a reader (13yrs+) living in Australia, please enter my competition for a free book over here! FREE WORKSHOP! If you’re an Australian high school, please enter my competition…
I am so excited to reveal the cover of my upcoming YA science fantasy novel ‘When Dark Roots Hunt’ – out this May thanks to my incredible publishers, MidnightSun Publishing. The cover was designed by the talented Abby Stout: It’s so gorgeous that it deserves a You Tube short in…
Wow, what better way to get into 2023 than with some heart-warming praise! In my last post, I talked about the importance of praise as a professional love language, to inspire buoyancy, hope and motivation (read that post over here). So imagine my joy when I then received this amazing…
Invading aliens with advanced technology may make us obsolete, but not all of us want to be, and not all of us will succumb as easily to hopelessness as others… My short story ‘Not Today’ is kicking off my 2023 publications with this horrifying short story of control and despair.…
2022 was so much better than I thought it would be, both professionally and personally. Professionally, I’m of course ecstatic that my science fantasy YA adventure ‘When Dark Roots Hunt’ was signed by MidnightSun Publishing. It’s scheduled for release in May 2023 and I can’t wait! Woo hoo! I don’t…
What do the following books have in common? ‘Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus’ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ‘Deception Point’ by Dan Brown ‘Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow’ by Peter Høeg ‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent ‘Into the Wild’ by Jon Krakauer ‘Towards White’ by me! The answer is: they’re the…
I’m absolutely delighted to announce my YA novel ‘When Dark Roots Hunt’ has been signed by publishing rockstars MidnightSun Publishing. Here’s a rough idea of what you can expect… “Giant water-ants hunt anything that moves on the lake. Immense wyann trees search the shallows to spear passing prey with their…
