Who would have thought, ten years ago, when I first started writing about Detective Dave Burrows in Red Dust, that he would have become everyone's favourite character and now have his own series? Certainly not me!

Okay, so on the 21st March, this is about to happen... Detective Dave Burrows is launched into his own series. Hopefully Fool's Gold will be the first of many adventures he takes us on.

Meet Jack. He's the new addition to the McDonald household. He's a gorgeous, energetic, five-year-old Kelpie from Woonwooring Kelpies at Cunderdin. Why, might you ask, does someone who lives in town and writes books for a living need a Kelpie?

In April, I'm branching out into General Women's Fiction with The Missing Pieces of Us. It's been so much fun to write this story about Lauren, her daughter Skye and Tamara. All women who face serious challenges in their lives.

I wish I'd read more this year - but then again, most readers probably say that. My to-be-read pile, next to my bed, my bookshelf and chair in the lounge seem rather large.

I didn't know I was any good at writing, and I certainly didn't think I'd still be at it seven books later! I guess I've always harboured a fear that one day I'd get caught out and someone would realise that I couldn't write and I was really just a fraud!

CALLING ALL WRITERS!

So now I'm not farming full-time; I need to put all of my efforts into writing. I sat down with a friend to map out my next twelve months, and we came up with an idea to run a Writer's Workshop.