How do I describe this year? Well I became a debut author so it’s the best year ever! My best moments in 2010 were: 1. Becoming a part of the black dog books family. 2. Having my novel Fury published in May 2010. 3. Getting to be a covergirl for The West Australian Today liftout. [...]

As a writer, is there anything more excruciatingly exciting, beautiful, relieving, thankful and insert-every-other-superlative than finishing the first draft? There’s a feeling of so many other things incomplete still, but if you’re given up a large chunk of your life, then you want to say “dammit! That’s it! That’s the first draft!” So there’s the [...]

(for part 1 of this post go here) On Monday 6 Sept, I make a library visit to Princess Hill to talk about being a writer and Melissa Keil, Editor Extraordinaire talks about publishing and agents and all the insider stuff. The kids (you know who you are) were adorable and I liked the cheeky [...]

I am in Melbourne, land of the little alleyway and the grafitti! Helping to spearhead the School’s Program part of the Melbourne Writer’s Festival 2010 @ Federation Square. My first time as a new author, my second time to this interesting city. First thing on a Monday I crash the green room of Miss Steph [...]