Well roll me over and tickle my tummy! (It’s Zeus here, just in case you thought Helene was getting kinky in her middle age 😉 ) The things you find on the internet… I’ve always prided myself on staying aloof from the paparazzi and that whole celebrity media thing. (Who wants to be caught in Continue reading
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Cooee!
Somewhere in this sea of masts our perfect new home is hiding. I just need to find her 🙂 Trouble is the one I’m looking for doesn’t have a mast at the moment. Should make it easy to spot, right? Wrong… I figured if I looked long and hard enough I’d spot it eventually, but Continue reading
The Life and Times of Chester Lewis – Blog Tour
This morning I’ve taken time out from ploughing through my latest edits to chat with Steve Rossiter, founder of The Australian Literature Review. This is his first stop on an International Blog Tour to celebrate the release of The Life and Times of Chester Lewis, a sequential anthology. I contributed a chapter to the book Continue reading
Perfecting the pitch?
Sadly my singing voice is definitely in retirement and my flute is unlikely to ever be pitch perfect again so I’m not talking ‘perfecting the pitch’ in a musical sense… Today I’m over at the Romance Writers of Australia blog talking about my journey from pitch to publication. RWA is running a series of interviews Continue reading
Where do writers write?
At the Queensland Writers Centre in the Queensland State Library of course! After the shock of landing from Cairns to find the temperature was 17 degrees on Friday, with a wind chill factor taking it even lower, I have to give Brisbane credit for turning on a glorious spring day yesterday. As I walked over Continue reading
Featured in The Weekend Australian
Cold War thriller sparks novel approach BY:MY FAVOURITE NOVEL – HELENE YOUNG From:The Australian October 06, 2012Â 12:00AM John Le Carre’s classic novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. CHOOSE one favourite book? That’s too difficult. I’ve lost count of my favourites across the years. Â I can however, share a book that changed Continue reading
I’m here!
I didn’t think life could get any more hectic, but it seems it can… I’m sat in bed with a cup of tea, GW and Zeus snoring peacefully beside me, catching up on emails, blogs, twitter, Face Book and the mail. Can’t quite see an end in sight yet and my laptop’s in danger of Continue reading
Hello? Is this working?
Well now isn’t this fun! Helene’s crook in bed with a dreaded summer cold (kept me awake half the night coughing and carrying on. You don’t see dogs behaving like that…sniff..) Anyway, the thing is she left her computer turned on and within easy reach. Seems typing isn’t as hard as I thought it would Continue reading
The Age – Books That Changed Me
Syndicated article – “Books That Changed Me” The Age
ARRA Google Hang Out
Australian Romance Readers Association Google Hang Out. Find us Hanging Out at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118DCUurnQc