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As the year wraps up, I want to say thank you to readers, bookshops and the author community for making this writing life fun and worthwhile. We all get thrown a few curve balls and 2024 was full of them for me, but despite family challenges with aging relatives, I managed to participate in two anthologies that are dear to …
Winning a Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) award would have been a great way to end 2021, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. But I’m still in a high that my debut book Ryan’s Return: A Granite Ridge Outback Romance was one of four finalists in a national romance writing award. The RuBY in the novella category went …
A little while ago I shared my emotions that my debut book Ryan’s Return was a FINALIST in Australia’s premier romance fiction awards. I get to stay excited a little longer as the ROMANTIC BOOK OF THE YEAR (RuBY) awards will now be announced in December at the Gold Coast, after Covid-19 restrictions caused the postponement of the Romance Writers …
Apologies to my old newspaper subeditors, but I’m about to ‘bury the lead’ (hide the news) in this story. I hope you’ll bear with me, and it will be worth it. I stumbled across an email recently that shook my world. The small headline with the word ‘Finalists’ didn’t clue me in; I was merely curious to see who they …
I’m writing this in my lighthouse. Say what? Yep, you read correctly, I am the Artist in Residence at the Caloundra Lighthouses for a month. Such a cheeky thrill! Thanks to Sunshine Coast Council and Creativespaces for this initiative to give creatives access to spaces to create and make better use of local resources. Owning (temporarily) a lighthouse is thrilling, …
This month I finally released my romance novella Ryan’s Return: A Granite Ridge Outback Romance as an ebook on multiple platforms. Already it’s being discovered by new readers and some fab reviews are coming in. Yay! If you haven’t picked it up, click on the book cover and links will take you to a landing page where you can shop …
