Today I’m delighted to welcome Maree Anderson to my blog. I love reading her blog posts as they are always hysterically funny and full of life! Her new book FROM THE ASHES has just been released by Red Sage and it looks fantastic – a very gorgeous hero on the cover 🙂 And one lucky Continue reading
Author: Helene
I live by a beach just north of Cairns – my own tiny slice of paradise in North Queensland. When I'm not writing, you'll find me flying Dash 8 aircraft for QantasLink around regional Australia.
I write romantic suspense with feisty, confident heroines who (not surprisingly) work in the aviation industry. My stories are set in the top end of Australia – a wild and wonderful, larger-than-life environment just begging to be showcased in anticipation-filled novels.
Architectural masterpiece
The nest is complete. All she needs now is her family. It even has a little awning which is handy in the tropics 🙂
New mum on the block
It’s easy to spot a new mum when Sunbirds start nesting. She’s the one building her nest on the bottom of a hanging basket and using a piece of scrappy plant to anchor it instead of the string provided by her house keeper… Lucky for her there’s an interfering human 🙂 I think she may Continue reading
Addiction of the perfectly acceptable kind
Today I welcome Elizabeth Martin to my blog. Another North Queensland writer, Elizabeth’s debut novel ‘The Coffeeholic and the Cafe’ was released by Booralong Press a couple of months ago. I had the pleasure of meeting Elizabeth at the wonderful Yungaburra Book Fair in October when she and Barbara Hannay very kindly chatted about their Continue reading
And it’s done :-)
BURNING LIES (Book 3 in the Border Watch series) is now a little over halfway and 50,000 words long! Am I excited? Yep!!! And exhausted… Tomorrow morning I conduct my last simulator session as a Check Captain on the Dash 8 -300. Tomorrow night I will be celebrating not just going home after three years Continue reading
NaNoWriMo and other matters
Oh my what a month it’s been… Apologies to those that thought I’d vanished off the face of the planet, but November is not about growing a moustache for me (I don’t plan on entering the Guinness book of records for facial hair feats…)it’s about writing 50,000 words. Every year for the past four years Continue reading
Perfect Past
On a recent visit to my mum’s house I tried to find my copy of Pookie the White Rabbit – my favourite children’s book. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished, but the top shelf in my old cupboard turned up some classics. It seems I was destined to write Romantic Suspense (and fly aircraft) from Continue reading
1980 was a very good year !
Who knew that school reunions could be so much fun? I spent Saturday night with fifty of my old classmates at our 30 yr reunion (don’t sweat the maths – it means we’re closer to 50 than 40…) Most of us haven’t seen each other for ten years since the last reunion or, in my Continue reading
So, what do you think?
It’s official I have two new covers! (No, not bedspreads as my silly husband just suggested…. duh…) I know this may seem a little odd, but Border Watch is being re-released as WINGS of FEAR, complete with a new look cover. ‘Why?’ I hear you ask (as did I). It seems the feedback from booksellers was that Continue reading
The e-book revolution!
In a couple of days Border Watch will be available as an ebook on the iBook Apple site! I’m very excited that Hachette has joined the e-revolution, though a little nervous as well… Booksellers have been incredibly supportive, hand-selling Border Watch to a stack of happy customers and I thank them for that. I’d hate Continue reading