Archives by Tag 'Suspense in the Tropics'
A long time to heal
Long after a cyclone or a natural disaster the devastation still remains. Yasi’s destruction has been all but forgotten except by those who are still rebuilding their lives. The rest of us move on. I spoke to a woman recently who said she lived at Mission Beach. ‘How are you doing?’ I asked, thinking she’d [...]
Pan-pan, pan-pan, pan-pan
With the reliability of modern aircraft, advanced engineering systems, and components that are replaced long before they wear out most airline pilots will never experience an engine in-flight shut down in their careers. We spend a lot of time planning for that eventuality – completing emergency procedures training, and flying flight simulators where we deal [...]
The quiet achievers
With a minimum of fuss, while we were trying to leave Australia and travel to New York, one of my orchids produced two beautiful flowers. It’s a plant that sits at the back of the pack, never complains and never demands. I always think of orchids as metaphors for late blooming children.
First Wednesday Book Club
I laughed so much last night my stomach still aches this morning. Who knew a book club meeting could be so entertaining? What a wonderful way to discuss books and writing plus anything vaguely connected to that, which means everything was fair game The catering was wonderful, the company entertaining and I’ve come away with [...]
Herald Sun Review
Review of Shattered Sky in Herald Sun 6th March 2011 Find it here Herald Sun Lifestyle
Trinity Picininis
There’s something very engaging about small children intent on their artwork. A tongue sticking out of the corner of a mouth, the furrowed forehead of concentration, the tunnel vision required to get that curved line just right. So absorbed are they, you can speak to them and they don’t hear you. It’s not that they [...]
Anna Campbell’s Reckless Surrender
Hi Anna, thanks for dropping by my blog. It’s fantastic to be able to welcome you here. Congratulations on your recent ARRA Awards – Favourite Australian Romance Author and Favourite Historical Romance, woohooo!!! Well deserved wins. Since we finalled in the Emma Darcy you have been an inspiration to me – and your support and [...]
And our holidays are over…
Back to work… After a wonderful holiday it’s always a touch hard to get motivated and this time was no exception. Spending so much time away from home with work meant I treasured the four weeks of having GW all to myself! I’m back in Sydney now and I have one final story from holidays [...]
Bikers Descend on Darwin
This should be titled ‘The people you meet on the road’! We went all the way to Darwin to have catch-up sunset drinks with Ray and Owen. They’ve spent the last week, along with 300 other bikers (as opposed to bikies…), riding from Brisbane to Darwin as part of a Ulysses Long Ride, raising funds [...]
Of gulls, and stingrays, and fishermen
This blog was meant to be about something quite different, but then we took our glasses of Dukes Cabernet Merlot and walked to the Bathurst Lighthouse. (I love a sunset over water….) Over the last couple of days I’ve been watching the beautiful stingrays swimming along the beach. They look like black velvet as they [...]