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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.