One of the pleasures of an author’s life is to have the opportunity to speak about their work and I’ve been doing that lately, at Gatton and Laidley Libraries in the Lockyer Valley on Friday 3rd November and now today at the Indie Author Expo at Ipswich Central Library. What a great resource the public library network is in Australia …. I invariably find the libraries are run by outstanding, dedicated professionals who are conscious of serving their reading public. Top marks

One of the pleasures of an author’s life is to have the opportunity to speak about their work and I’ve been doing that lately, at Gatton and Laidley Libraries in the Lockyer Valley on Friday 3rd November and now today at the Indie Author Expo at Ipswich Central Library. What a great resource the public library network is in Australia …. I invariably find the libraries are run by outstanding, dedicated professionals who are conscious of serving their reading public. Top marks

To Love, Honour & Betray Book 2 of the Belleville Family saga ISBN 9780994327611 A$24.95 print paperback – pre-order & special price now available at  www.pmabooks.com ISBN 9780994327628 – ebook (except Kindle) – available soon Kindle edition will be uploaded in the next couple of days Well, I’ve finished the book …. no more tweaking now. The cover has been finalised. Just doing the final production phase heading towards printing and the e-book version being available. Wha

To Love, Honour & Betray Book 2 of the Belleville Family saga ISBN 9780994327611 A$24.95 print paperback – pre-order & special price now available at  www.pmabooks.com ISBN 9780994327628 – ebook (except Kindle) – available soon Kindle edition will be uploaded in the next couple of days Well, I’ve finished the book …. no more tweaking now. The cover has been finalised. Just doing the final production phase heading towards printing and the e-book version being available. Wha

What’s next? Well I’ve been busy writing Book 2 of my Belleville family series. It will be entitled ‘To Love, Honour & Betray’ ……… but that’s all I am saying at this stage. Sometimes I find writing just flows, other times it’s a challenge, but I remember that old adage about just getting it written. It’s always possible to revise pedestrian prose but it’s impossible to revise a blank page. When I finish a chapter, I tend to print it out and read it in bed, with a pencil to ma

What’s next? Well I’ve been busy writing Book 2 of my Belleville family series. It will be entitled ‘To Love, Honour & Betray’ ……… but that’s all I am saying at this stage. Sometimes I find writing just flows, other times it’s a challenge, but I remember that old adage about just getting it written. It’s always possible to revise pedestrian prose but it’s impossible to revise a blank page. When I finish a chapter, I tend to print it out and read it in bed, with a pencil to ma

So it’s Sunday and I’m back in Brisbane and reflecting on my author talks at Laidley and Gatton on Friday. Click on the links to find out where these towns are. Gatton is best known for its agricultural college. As we drove through the area we were impressed by the neat rows and rows of beautiful healthy vegetables. First of all a big ‘thank you’ to Nic in Laidley and Sue in Gatton – who made me feel very welcome. I was so impressed by the service these women and their collea

So it’s Sunday and I’m back in Brisbane and reflecting on my author talks at Laidley and Gatton on Friday. Click on the links to find out where these towns are. Gatton is best known for its agricultural college. As we drove through the area we were impressed by the neat rows and rows of beautiful healthy vegetables. First of all a big ‘thank you’ to Nic in Laidley and Sue in Gatton – who made me feel very welcome. I was so impressed by the service these women and their collea

The beautiful Botanic Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand The problem when you have a busy and intellectually demanding day job is that the writing life you’ve also committed to gets scant attention at times. Do I have the headspace to progress my writing career and steer a traditional print media magazine group through the challenging transition phase we’re currently seeing in the print media sector as well give my attention to my first love? Frustrated and confused, I went

The beautiful Botanic Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand The problem when you have a busy and intellectually demanding day job is that the writing life you’ve also committed to gets scant attention at times. Do I have the headspace to progress my writing career and steer a traditional print media magazine group through the challenging transition phase we’re currently seeing in the print media sector as well give my attention to my first love? Frustrated and confused, I went

If you head west of Brisbane (Qld, Australia) on the highway, past Ipswich, for an hour or so, you’ll soon find yourself in the heart of the Lockyer Valley, which is where my career as a ‘speaking’ author begins on Friday 29 April 2016 – 10.00am at the Laidley Library (pictured) and 12.00 noon at the Gatton Library, which is close by. The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmland. It is intensively cultivated, growing the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables

If you head west of Brisbane (Qld, Australia) on the highway, past Ipswich, for an hour or so, you’ll soon find yourself in the heart of the Lockyer Valley, which is where my career as a ‘speaking’ author begins on Friday 29 April 2016 – 10.00am at the Laidley Library (pictured) and 12.00 noon at the Gatton Library, which is close by. The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmland. It is intensively cultivated, growing the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables

My attention has been on other matters for a few months, not my writing career. Even so, I have been organising a few things to promote my first book ….. The House of Secrets: Julia’s Story. Having decided the mainstream publishers don’t know what they are missing (in other words, no big money offers came my way), I’ve published the book myself under our own imprint PMA Books – http://www.pmabooks.com – and on Amazon.com – so there are now copies filtering through the booksto

My attention has been on other matters for a few months, not my writing career. Even so, I have been organising a few things to promote my first book ….. The House of Secrets: Julia’s Story. Having decided the mainstream publishers don’t know what they are missing (in other words, no big money offers came my way), I’ve published the book myself under our own imprint PMA Books – http://www.pmabooks.com – and on Amazon.com – so there are now copies filtering through the booksto