This year my husband and I decided to spend our annual holiday visiting my sister in-law and her husband. They moved to Peachester in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland about 18 months ago. It is a pretty but slow moving part of the world, and I was hoping to get in plenty of reading and writing during the …
Draft Cover – The Persian Bottle
I have set up a draft cover (front and back) for my children's book. I am aware that if it gets accepted by a commercial publisher that I will not have much say in the final look - but if I have to self publish then I need to have something ready to go. These …
The journey stalls
Okay I will admit it. I have been somewhat remise in the blog contribution department. No excuses – I just didn’t do it. I have however made a few decisions about the set-up of my blog. I have started looking at a few cover designs for the first of my Science Fiction/Crime short stories. (I …
The journey begins
It has taken me quite a while to get to the point in my life where I now feel that I can really dedicate some time to being a writer. I haven’t quite got to the point where I say “I am a writer” when a person asks me what my occupation is, deferring instead …

