
HNSA Colleen McCullough Residency 2019
When I first saw the Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) announcement of their inaugural Colleen McCullough Residency, I was blown away by the generosity of the prize and the amazing opportunity open to all eligible attendees at the 2019 HNSA Conference in Sydney last weekend. Who wouldn?t want to spend … Read More
Permission to Write Crap and Crap on!
It?s time for me to get back to blogging, but, from now on, without always spending hours researching or pedantically connecting all my posts to serious writing subjects, which takes away from real, actual writing time. At the beginning of a new novel project real writing is top of my … Read More

Oh, what a feeling..!
That feeling when your brand new story/character/world becomes real and ? OMG, it/he/she speaks to you! Especially when you feared after finishing your previous project (of many drafts and years) that the same passion might never strike you again. Despite reading many blogs/interviews/author biographies to the contrary ? the promise … Read More
It takes a village…
The thing I love about being part of SCBWI (Vic) is the support of fellow creationists who share and care and encourage each other. So standing up to speak in front of a large group?of them last Saturday to share my Varuna Fellowship experience was a real pleasure, actually fun, … Read More
It must be January…
…because it?s Month of Poetry. Yay! What an inspirational way to launch the year and reinvigorate the writing muscle. Month of Poetry is run every year in January by the very talented and lovely?Kathryn (Kat) Apel?who gives experienced and novice poets alike a forum to write and post a poem … Read More
Paul Collins – Writing Across Genres
Today I?m excited to welcome award-winning author/publisher Paul Collins?to share his experience writing across genres and celebrate the launch of not just one, but two new books. Paul is best known for The Quentaris Chronicles, which he co-edits with Michael Pryor, The Jelindel Chronicles, The Earthborn Wars and The World … Read More