I often get asked what my office looks like - or where I work, which is pretty much the same question! The first thing I did when I got my new office was print off quotes that inspire me - that make me continue to want to achieve and try to get better.

I love music, and I think this image is such a good reflection of how I feel when I listen to it - all emotions and thoughts and love and hate and fear all mixed up into one loud bar of stirring sound.

A few months ago, we had another L-plater enter the house. The older daughter is already a P-plater, so I’d had my fair share of hanging out of the passenger’s seat; knew what it was like, what directions to give, how to be calm and soothing when really all I wanted to do was scream.

Being a woman, 'you'll need to lose weight' is NOT a phrase you really want to hear. Still, I heard that last Monday when I went to see my specialist about my back.

I've always said I can write anywhere. With a deadline looming (as they always seem to!) and having to take our exchange student back to Perth to fly home to Italy, I've proved again that I can do just that.

Today, Where the River Runs goes to print. This book feels like it's been a mammoth effort - I was supposed to have it finished a long time before I actually handed the manuscript in...There was a reason! 

Now here's a funny story... I went to Sydney last week for six days. Six days with lots of different meetings and activities required at least seven different outfits, shoes to go with them and all the toiletries, etc you need.

I've been thinking about re-inventing my blog for some time, and now that time is right here. I used to love writing blogs - they would get my fingers all warmed up for writing during the day, and I LOVED sharing photos and little stories of my farming life with you all.

Thinking ahead is critical in life. Planning is important. You'd think at nearly 44, I would understand this. So, today (Saturday morning) I fail to understand why I have woken up with a slight hangover and found there to be no cold pizza in the house for breakfast.

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!

Esperance received a fair bit of rain on Thursday. Rain is one of my all-time favourite parts of Mother Nature. I grew up in the mid-north of SA, where it wasn’t a common occurrence, and as a farmer, I know there are good times for rain and others not so great.

Not all abuse is physical. Domestic Violence is another form of terrorism. Why? Terrorism creates fear, and fear is what these people live with daily. Fear of what will happen next.

I've been a little quiet on the blog for the last couple of months - there has been a reason why! It's been busy!

So, my very important information. What is it?

I can't tell you how excited I am to be releasing my first women's fiction novel, The Missing Pieces of Us. It will be available on the 29th of March 2017, but you are able to pre-order now.

That crazy time of the year in between Christmas and New Year, when no one seems to know what day it is, has passed us by once again!

Hand-me-down recipes from previous generations are a wonderful heirloom. I love it when we get to Christmas time, and I can open my old, tattered, food-stained, handwritten recipe book and start cooking food from my Nana or Aunty.

What a difference a year makes. This time in 2015, my daughter and I were hanging out in Melbs waiting for the last concert in the Taylor Swift 1989 World Tour. Do you know it feels like a lifetime ago, yet I can remember everything so clearly.