Genre Celebrations!

Calling all lovers of Genre Fiction! This coming weekend the wonderful team at QWC, headed by new CEO Meg Vann, is staging GenreCon an inaugural event to celebrate all things about romance, speculative fiction, fantasy stories, paranormals, erotica, general women’s fiction and the list goes on. In fact, let’s just celebrate writing and great stories!! GenreCon is Continue reading


Taree

What a fabulous evening in Taree! I know that country  Australia has a well deserved reputation for its warm welcome, but Taree outdid itself last night. Thanks to Shelleyrae (of Book’d Out fame) and Danielle, Margie and Cheryl from Greater Taree Library for organising the evening.  Nikki from Manning Valley Books provided a lovely display Continue reading


Word in edgeways?

I once had a boss who maintained that a woman is issued with a set number of words per day and god help the man who doesn’t allow her to use them all… I think he was trying to say I talked too much… Who me? Whatever the truth, Lisa Heidke and myself are using Continue reading


A Stella read!

This year my To Be Read pile is already topping out at fifteen books and that’s before they’ve even been released. The first cab off the rank for 2012 is Lisa Heidke’s new book, STELLA MAKES GOOD. Lisa’s stopped by today for a chat. Enjoy! Lisa, congratulations! With the release of STELLA you now have Continue reading


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 🙂 Continue reading