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I should have been a dentist
Hello! I am alive! And I am proving it by using two exclamation marks in my first two sentences. I haven’t posted for a while and I would like to say it’s because I am just so busy busy busy …
Good Books
I have my own book club and we seem to be on a winning streak with our last couple of choices. We have read everything from Wuthering Heights to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Room. My group likes …
Things I do to avoid writing …
I have carved out child free time in my week to write. Well, really, it’s terribly convenient that the law states children have to go to school. Fabulous. So, I have regular, structured hours in the day to write. In …
Book Clubs and Book Shops and other stuff
At wedding speeches someone usually gets up and says: “Some housekeeping first. Those who parked cars …” The following is housekeeping and I hope whoever is out there reads on – or goes and moves their car. BOOK SHOPS: I …
Thank You
It’s six o’clock on Sunday afternoon and I’ve just put the heater on in my study and shut the door. I can hear the kids in the distance making up a song. At the moment they are getting on. Fingers …
It’s on the shelves…
It takes a long time for a book to go from an idea to a finished product on the shelves. There’s thinking, writing, thinking, writing and then trying to live the rest of your life. Did I mention thinking, writing. …
Method to the Madness …
I’ve had a few interviews now for the release of the Under The Influence and one question that keeps being asked concerns the process. I have been asked repeatedly: How do you write? Are you disciplined or do you write …
Here it is …
Under The Influence is out in about a month. Here’s the cover. This is what it will look like on the shelves! I’m really excited and nervous at the same time. I don’t have a clue what is going to …
Under The Influence out in April 2011
Three women and a secret. Eve, Sarah and Meg were all boarders together at an exclusive Sydney girls’ private school. Now Eve is a successful celloist in London, Meg a doctor and Sarah a happy mother of two. What happened? …
My List So Far…
I have a few things on my list for 2011. It isn’t finished, it is only the beginning. This year: remember people’s birthdays find a house to live write move house file stuff buy files write go to more live …