Writing What I Know – At Last!

It’s an old piece of writing advice to write what you know. And luckily most writers have never taken it literally. I’m more of the “write what you feel like, and research what you don’t know” school. Otherwise all my Read more

The Joy of (Even Terrible) Writing

At first I didn’t know what I was going to write about for this month’s guest post, and then tonight the most wonderful thing happened: I got an email from my nephew Tom asking me to give him feedback on Read more

2017 – the year of the Aussie books!

Something that people often ask me in interviews is why aren’t more of my books set in Australia? And really, the answer to that is, um, I don’t really know? Well, 2017 is the year that’s going to change! Back Read more

Christmas Confession

This year, I haven’t put any of the decorations up. Apart from the disapproval of my nephew and niece, so far I haven’t regretted it for a moment. The thing is, usually I work on Christmas Day. The fact that Read more

A tumultuous month

Well, after what turned out to be quite a tumultuous month in the US, I’m now back home after GRL and setting back into the day job, and into a writing schedule that will actually allow me to complete some Read more

Will I see you at GRL?

Hi everyone! This is only going to be a very short post this month, because as always I’m totally disorganised, and I suddenly realised I leave for the US in two days and have not even started packing. This is Read more