230,000 Homes Read About Me & My #NBWG

What a great way to start the year – with a feature in January’s Peninsula Living! It’s been a bit of a tough festive season for me, with some bad family news that will see me returning to England for a short time, as soon as possible. So it’s particularly…

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Photos From Our NBWG Book Launch

Did you know I founded the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group way back in 2009? I created the group because I wanted two things: to improve my own writing through informed peer review + to connect with similarly minded others in my local area Five years later and NBWG is doing…

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Three Publishing Insights

Over the last few weeks I have experienced life as a publisher – and the journey has given me some interesting industry insights. Firstly, I’d best explain that I haven’t changed professions – I am now and will always be first and foremost a writer. My transition has been a…

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Sometimes, the Planets Do Align…

You know those weeks when you think to yourself: what on earth am I doing, wasting my life on this? It’s never going to get me where I want to go… Well so far this October, I haven’t felt that way once. Well okay, maybe once. But overall it’s been…

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What Makes A Good Friend? #Writing

This week I was hanging out with teenage writers, helping them write their stories and get those words into print. When I was a young writer, writing was absolutely everything to me. It was more important in fact than anything else in life – friends, family, school, even my personal…

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How A Dolphin Can Help Write A Novel #WABIAD

Last Saturday night, I couldn’t sleep – I was too excited about what was going to happen the next day… taking the Write-a-Book-in-a-Day challenge! Last year, my team (of ten Northern Beaches Writers’ Group members) took the ‘WABIAD’ challenge to raise money for The Kids Cancer Project at Westmead Children’s…

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#WABIAB National Open Competition – We Won!!!

As some of you may recall, earlier this year my writers’ group and I decided to raise some money for The Kids’ Cancer Project at Westmead Children’s Hospital – doing what we most love to do… write. We wrote, illustrated and printed a book for 11-16 year olds entitled Scribbles…

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