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Debbie Robson

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in Sydney, Australia

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lakelady2282

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Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Romance

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I was born in the Mater Hospital in Sydney and grew up on the Northern Beaches. I now live in Lake Macquarie and work in Newcastle. I have variously given birth to a son in South Wales, a daughter in New South Wales, run an internet dating agency, made dreamcatchers and tested telephone lines.
My poems and stories have been published here and overseas. Tomaree is my first published novel and my second novel Crossing Paths, inspired by BookCrossing, is up at Amazon. I have recently completed my manuscript Paris Next Week, the first book in a trilogy set in Sydney and Paris during the 1920s.
I blog on writing and researching historical fiction at wordpress and review regularly here on Goodreads.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 86 ratings · 50 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Crossing Paths 3.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomaree really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skive Magazine - Real Dreams Issue - June 2012 by Matthew Glenn Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linda (L.M.) Visman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Debbie Robson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skive Magazine - Farewell - November 2013 by Matthew Glenn Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alice Lowe, Allen Kopp it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skive Magazine - Erotica Issue, Dec 2012 by Matthew Glenn Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karen Bayly (Goodreads Author), Marie-Claude Bourjon it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Printer Zone - Issue 1 - November 2011 by Matthew Glenn Ward (Goodreads Author) (editor), Steve Dodds (contributor), Linda (L.M.) Visman (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women of Words Eat, Stray'd, Love by Janette Hoppe (Editor), Magdalena Ball (Goodreads Author), Lisa Callister it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serious Flash Fiction Volumes VIII by Ben Warden (Editor), Debbie Robson (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	boats against the current issue I: fall 2022 by McKenna Themm (Editor), Debbie Robson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women of Words: 2016-2018 by Janette Hoppe (Editor), Debbie Robson (Goodreads Author), Jan Dean really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The act of researching - time, place and memory

This is a repost from wordpress without the beautiful photo of an old house near Chateau Chalon.
About two years ago I bought a photographic print by Maureen Boyle. She had quite a lot of prints on display – small and large of photographs she had taken in France and I was taking my time choosing. After all, I was aware that I might be selecting an image for a scene or scenes of a manuscript not yet Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 07, 2017 02:44 • Tags: 1920s, chateau, memory, place, researching, time

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Sagan, Paris 1954

by Anne Berest

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How It All Began

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Earlier in the year I decided I needed a fun read. Maybe with a bit of a mystery and adventure. I thought an early Agatha Christie might just be the thing. I wish I had taken a note of the 1940s Agatha Christie I tried to read as I would have put it ...more
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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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“Tomorrow is the end of the world and I am just wandering around and thinking only of happiness….”
― Alexandar Tomov, Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth

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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
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