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I met Midas, my character from The Buried, in real life!
Now if you have read The Buried, you’ll know who Midas is. But let me tell you, there is a real-life Midas look-alike. He’s not homeless, nor does he hold any secrets from Kalgoorlie. He does, however, look exactly as I imagined Midas…
Welcome. We’ve got E. coli in the water …
Not something I expected to hear in Australia, but I was in a very remote and normally dry place as part of my tour, so I took the information on the chin. Although I must have looked a little shocked because the next line out of her mouth was …
20 years and 29 books written, as of yesterday at 7.23 am
When I first started writing back in 2006, amongst shitty nappies, projectile vomiting, sheep yards and looking after my terminally ill mother-in-law, I could never have foreseen I would write 29 novels.
Back when I was superwoman (had enough oestrogen)
… And I could remember my kids’ names and sit for hours at the computer without moving and focus at the same time; there might have been a bit of superwoman about me.
A week in the life…
It has been a wild week! Not weather-wise, because normally if I say a week has been wild, it’s been windy and raining and freezing. Lovely winter weather. Yes, the weather has been a bit like that this last week, but I’m meaning work-wise!
Join me, I'm off on a blog tour for Sapphire Falls!
Welcome to my beautiful new website! Just in time for Sapphire Falls to get a bit of a run here! I'm off on tour... A virtual one. Here's where I'll be.
My epic Emerald Springs tour and a lovely homecoming
It's been a while now since Emerald Springs came out. Three months, in fact! As I said in a previous post, it was pretty hard to write - there was lots going on. One of the things that kept me focused was that I had a huge tour in front of me.
I’m on my Emerald Springs SA tour - come and say hello!
I left Esperance today to fly to Perth and then across to Adelaide. I'm really looking forward to getting back to my old home state, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones.