I'm very excited to be opening my blog up again to other authors who have new books out. It's great to be able to let readers know what is out and about and what authors have new books. Joy Rhoades is first cab off the rank with her beautiful new novel, The Burnt Country. Take it away, Joy...

It's that exciting time of the year again, when there is a cover to show you all! If you can believe it (because it only feels like a few short weeks ago, that Without a Doubt hit the shelves), I have another book on the 5th of November.

What a great day to spend in front of the fire, editing the next book for you all. Starting from Now will be out in November, and this has been an awesome, fun book to write, albeit slightly controversial...

It’s International Women’s Day today - Here’s to the girls! An important day in our calendar to celebrate everything women are capable of… our strengths, our abilities, our uniqueness.

Back in 2007, when I first started writing fiction, I created a character named Detective Dave Burrows.

He was my lead male character in my first published novel, Red Dust. Dave worked hard, played hard, loved the bush and his job as lead detective in the WA Rural Crime Unit.

The Farmer's Choice - a background into Detective Dave Burrows

Recently, I've been getting a few questions about the difference in the Dave books: 'Last book I read, he was married to Kim, and now he's married to Melinda! Help, have I missed a book?'

April will see the release of the second Detective Dave Burrows book, Without a Doubt.

To celebrate, in May, I'm hitting the road with my ute and maybe my dog and coming to a town near you.

Red Dust, the book that started Dave Burrows' rise to fame! Back in 2007, when I first started writing fiction, I created a character named Detective Dave Burrows.

Are you looking for something a little different for that hard-to-buy-for person? I have gift packs available.

On White Ribbon Day, Breaking the Silence (now DV Assist) launched in Albany. If you haven't heard about Breaking the Silence, then let me tell you.

Are you feeling a little tired? Don't feel like reading a bedtime story to the kids? Well, I've got your problem solved! Pop them into bed and let Jack and I read them my latest children's book, What Should a Horse Say?

I watched with annoyance the ABC’s 4 Corners report on glyphosate and its ‘carcinogenic causing’ qualities, then with amusement when the 7.30 report started its series on Australia: how big is too big?

I'm sure you all know that Where the River Runs is coming very soon! 1st of November, in fact. About six weeks. BUT... Here's your chance to be the first to read a sampler of Where the River Runs. YAY!

It's been ages since I've been able to read. I'm not sure why, because it was my favourite pastime. I started to find it hard when I was under a lot of pressure: looking after a sick family member, then my marriage breakdown, and so on and so forth!

There is a Facebook photo with a picture of a strawberry saying: ‘Cut ‘em up, don’t throw ‘em out. Please continue to support Aussie Farmers through berry tough times.’ What a great campaign created through horrible circumstances.

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.

Having been a farmer for twenty years, I can tell you what the reality of drought is: it’s dry, dusty paddocks, with little or no grass. It’s dams that have nothing but mud in the bottom; sheep or cattle getting stuck as they search for water.

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.