Archives by Tag 'Border Watch'
Cairns Post Article – Romantic Book of the Year Winner
CAIRNS author and pilot Helene Young revisited a windswept Trinity Beach yesterday to recall the inspiration for her novel, Wings of Fear, which won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year award. “When I found a dead body on Trinity Beach in 2003, it started me thinking,” Ms Young said about her book, which centres [...]
Book sites
Are you a fan of Goodreads? Or The Reading Room? How about Shelfari? Librarything? Have you even heard of theses sites? Do you really need any more reasons to procrastinate? I certainly don’t, but I find myself strangely drawn to theses sites. The other day, chatting in the flight deck to a colleague who barely uses [...]
Trinity Turtles
There’s a wonderful band of retirees at Trinity Beach who keep the gardens on the foreshore full of vibrant colour. (Graham and I provide the muscles when required.) Yesterday we had a birthday barbie to celebrate the birthdays amongst the group in August. It was a windy but glorious day in paradise and I even [...]
Romantic Book of the Year
Thank you
Writerly Warriors
I had so many lightbulb moments during yesterday’s workshop with Bob Mayer it’s a wonder I didn’t blow the fuses in the hotel. Bob runs a workshop formerly called ‘Warrior Writer.’ I’ve been a Xena fan for many years so a course training me to be a Warrior Writer Princess was destined to suck [...]
Australian Colours
I never tire of the colours of the Australian landscape. Here’s a couple of shots from my office window. Not bad for a day’s work!
Good Reads Giveaway
Do you visit Goodreads? Have you even heard of the site? Goodreads is another social networking tool, but this one is squarely targeted at people who love books. For me it’s a little more addictive than Face Book as I’ve discovered all sorts of wonderful new authors via recommendations. You can list your favourite authors, review them, [...]
Quickie with me?
I’m visiting Kat over at the Book Thingo blog today and there’s a copy of Wings of Fear up for grabs! You’ll find the ‘quickie interview’ here : http://bookthingo.com.au/a-quickie-with-helene-young/ Look forward to your comments on their site Helene
Pitch perfect
Are you heading to the RWA conference in August? Do you have one or more pitches booked? If so then this blog is for you! I’m the living proof that pitching can work. In 2008 I pitched to Bernadette Foley. In 2010 the book I pitched hit the shelves as Wings of Fear (Border Watch). I [...]
Genetically young
Three generations of women and a very happy Grandma in the middle of it all! Three generations of family (minus the partners and assorted pets!)