Archives by Tag 'Hachette Australia'
Contest Winners
I’ve been busy in the blogsphere while I’ll be tracking around Australia and with all the excitement I haven’t had time to post the winners from several visits and the Good Read Giveaway for Half Moon Bay. The winner from Book’d Out’s blog was Heidi – the book is winging its way to her letterbox [...]
Great! It’s Keppel
Anyone else remember the best advertising campaign for an Australian resort island – Get Wrecked on Great Keppel? Sadly the resort is no longer operating, a salutory reminder that Australian tourism is not the driving force it used to be. 24 years ago, with my brand new private pilot licence, I landed on Great Keppel [...]
Navigating the narrow places
Looks can be deceiving. Beneath the calm waters of The Narrows lurk hidden rocks, shoals and bankings ready to snare the unwary. The channel runs up the western side of Curtis Island to the north of Gladstone and through to Port Alma near Rockhampton. With a strong wind warning outside it was our only option [...]
The Next Big Thing
It’s my turn today. Last week Karly Lane, author of the fabulous ’Bridie’s Choice’ tagged me in her post so make sure you drop by and check out her blog. So what’s it all about? The Next Big Thing is a blog series that’s been revolving around the internet for the last couple of months. [...]
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012
Talk about scraping home by the skin of my teeth! As 2012 draws to a close I thought I’d best post my completed list for the Australian Women Writers Challenge. I’m a little stunned that I found time to read so many. A very big thank you to Elizabeth Lheude for instigating this wonderful challenge. [...]
And so that was Christmas :)
The day started with a leisurely walk on Trinity Beach, a bath for Zeus and breakfast by the pool. That was all too much for Zeus who then needed a pensioners nap… GW sent up a protective mantle of sandalwood smoke to ward off the mozzies – particularly those with the stripy footie socks who [...]
What’s it to you?
What do you love most about this time of year? Is it the nightly thunderstorms that start as tiny buildups in the west and end as growling monsters, with the Norse god, Thor, throwing lightening bolts around the skies? Perhaps it’s the frenetic shopping? With my poorly developed shopping gene I can’t say I get [...]
What next?
How embarrassing… You’d think there’d be some respect shown to an old dog, but oh no, not in this family. It may be true that I’m a little anxious at the moment and I have been licking my leg a little obsessively (but they say cleanliness is next to godliness…) There may in fact be [...]
Babinda magic
The heat shimmers on the road as I drive south. The sugar cane in the fields is all newly planted and the stacks at the sugar mills stand silent guard over their domains. The sky’s turned pale blue as though the light is too bright for it. Summer has arrived. In North Queensland the razorback [...]
Writer adrift?
Time to break out the champagne – and this time it’s not to celebrate the launch of a new book (although that’s coming in June 2013!!). No, this time champagne is called for because, after fifteen years of dreaming and planning, the next phase of our lives is suddenly here. We’re about to become live-aboard [...]