Archives by Tag 'RWA'
The power of good company
Writing can be a solitary experience - FOR THE HUSBAND! What the? Hmm, seems husband is hell bent on hijacking my keyboard today… He’s now been banished to the couch and cricket!! (Go the Aussies!) As I was saying, writing can be quite lonely and yesterday was catch up time for the North Queensland RWA [...]
The power of words
It’s wonderful to see so many people rallying to help others. My publisher Hachette has made a very generous donation to the appeal and when I checked on the list of corporate donors on the website I was amazed at the extent of donations and the diversity of companies helping out. Lovely to see Authors [...]
After the clean up
The pictures of volunteers lining up to help in flood-devastated Brisbane are wonderful and say so much about the generosity of spirit within our communities. RWA has a book appeal running. So many other organisations including ARRA are staging fund-raising events. It’s wonderful to see and every cent will be vital. But these communties will [...]
RWA Flooded Communities Book Appeal
FROM THE ROMANCE WRITERS OF AUSTRALIA We’ve all seen the devastation the recent Queensland floods have wrought and have wondered how we can help. We know that for many affected families, books will not be high on their priorities list for some time to come. But… We also know how valuable books can be in [...]
Barbara Hannay on ABC local radio NQ
A quick reminder that Barb Hannay will be doing a radio interview on ABC radio Townsville this afternoon at 2.20 pm. All the details are on her website. She’s running a competition for the best opening line for a Romance novel so get your thinking caps on and, if you’re around and listening, phone in for [...]
Coogee – My husband’s perspective of the RWA Conference
Page Three Girls
How wonderful! RWA made it to page three of the Sydney Morning Herald!!! I know my fellow romance writers and readers will already have read this article, but for those of you who might not have seen it here’s the link. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/daniel-puts-the-man-in-romance-20100815-1253f.html The story, by journalist Sacha Molitorisz, complete with some lovely innuendos , gets [...]
RWA Coogee 2010
So, here we are sitting at the airport (one of my favourite places) waiting to go home after four days overload of all things Romance Writing. My husband always makes the journey south with me. He loves being one of the few men in the room (not that he admits to that…) and he’s sat next to [...]
RWA Conference Bound!
My bags are packed, Beyond the Borders first round of edits is complete (I think…), and I’m off to bed for an early start tomorrow. Can’t wait to catch up with everyone in person at the RWA conference in Sydney. It’s always a wonderful motivating weekend where we celebrate Romance, writing and our collective love [...]
An importer with a sense of humour :-)
In our house there’s an ongoing obsession with boats, more specifically catamarans. Every couple of months my husband comes up with a new scheme to allow us to buy the dream cat (so far we’re still dreaming…). He came across this site yesterday and it provided me with the most entertainment I’ve ever had on [...]