What’s in a Name?

This month, editor extraordinaire of Women’s Ink Magazine Jacqui Brown invited five authors – including me! – to talk about how we name our characters. Kristin Darell, who co-authored Into Tordon with me, was also featured; as was Valerie Pybus, Anne Benjamin and Australia’s climate fiction queen Cat Sparks. Our…

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#WomensHistoryMonth Work-Life Balance @GillianPolack

It’s ‘Women’s History Month’! So the gracious Gillian Polack invited me to consider how we’re living through ‘epoch-changing times’ in which ‘all of us are making history’, and I put my mind to thinking how the experiences of the last few years have affected my work-life balance. The results of…

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2021 @MosmanLibrary Literary Awards Judge’s Report #MYAL

Today I was supposed to be heading to Mosman’s Barry O’Keefe Library for a ceremony celebrating the 2021 Mosman Youth Awards in Literature, for which I judged the short story entries, selected the winners for the Senior Prose section, and wrote a detailed judge’s report. Since Sydney is in complete…

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Working at the Top! #Maslow #BetterTogether

Last month I was invited to participate in a brainstorming ‘co-design’ day with my local council to develop a social sustainability strategy – how to be ‘Better Together’ by 2041. It was really fun and thought-provoking, covering topics like feeling safe, included and connected. I was able to share real life…

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Covid-19 Author Warriors

It’s a brave time to be publishing books with Covid-19 uncertainties rife all around the world. So I wanted to give a special shout out to some of the amazing Australian authors who I’ve helped published in 2020 – either with a book layout, an edit, mentoring, or all of…

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How To Control Time!

Time often spontaneously speeds up or slows down depending on what we’re doing and where we are… Do What? Last week, I fell over. I’m too old to fall over! But as I was jogging down the street on my morning run, I tripped on a raised section of pavement,…

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