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Marina Finlayson

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Marina Finlayson is a reformed wedding organist who now writes fantasy. She is married and shares her Sydney home with three kids, a large collection of dragon statues and one very stupid dog with a death wish.

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Marina Finlayson I'm always super clean when a story's not behaving, because my go-to cure for writer's block is to have a long, soaky bath. There's something about be…moreI'm always super clean when a story's not behaving, because my go-to cure for writer's block is to have a long, soaky bath. There's something about being trapped in one spot with no distractions that really helps to wake up the creative side of my brain. It may take an hour, but I usually end up leaping out of the bath all pruney and wrinkled, but raring to go on the writing again.

And even if it doesn't work, hey, I got to lie in the bath for an hour! (less)
Marina Finlayson Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there are currently no plans to bring out books 4 and 5 of the Shadows of the Immortals series on audio. My…moreSorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there are currently no plans to bring out books 4 and 5 of the Shadows of the Immortals series on audio. My audio publisher didn't pick them up and I'm not able to produce them myself since that option is only available to US authors.(less)
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Do you keep a reading journal? I’ve been on Goodreads for years, and even before that I used to keep a list of the books I’d read each year on my old blog. But lately I’ve been seeing a lot of beautiful reading journals on YouTube, and their artistic nature appeals to the scrapbooker in me.

I’ve always had trouble remembering much of what I’ve read. Plot details blur together, and once I’ve fin

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Wow! What a ride of a book! I picked it up because of that dynamite premise--a mother sees her son murder someone in the street, but when she wakes up the next morning, it's the day before, and the murder hasn't happened--and it did not disappoint.

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This is a hard book to categorise--is it cosy mystery? chick lit? something more serious?--but it doesn't matter. Whatever it is, it's a good read, with some fascinating characters and an entertaining whodunit question to be answered. Melbourne and t ...more
Starter Dog by Rona Maynard
"Starter Dog is a memoir by Canadian author, Rona Maynard. Considering that her husband Paul has always been a dog lover, it’s unusual that they’ve managed to reach the age of sixty-three before he suggests to Rona that they get a dog.

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"Prettier If She Smiled More is the seventh novel by award-winning, best-selling Australian author, Toni Jordan, and the second to feature the Schnabel family. After two decades working as a pharmacist in the pharmacy she fully intends to buy when her" Read more of this review »
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“Throw the word “bargain” around a few times, and people will swarm the tiredest old dreck like bees in search of a new hive. Or maybe locusts, ready to strip the place bare. They even buzzed like swarming insects. Voices raised in conversation and laughter, plus the occasional shrieks of a tired child, formed a background roar that still failed to drown out the tired tinkle of Christmas music piped over the top. I’d only been here ten minutes and already I’d heard White Christmas twice. Two times too many in my book.”
Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“Bet Boss wouldn’t be pleased about the sunnies thing. Making yourself look like a tosser was a personal choice, of course, but it meant Sunnies Dude stood out from the crowd. Despite the heat and glare outside, no one else in here wore sunglasses. What did they teach these guys in spy school? Didn’t he know he should be trying to blend in?”
Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“So I had a look, in case it was full of white powder, or hundred dollar bills, or something equally dodgy. I may not care about much any more but no money on earth would get me to deliver drugs. But I couldn’t even tell what it was—a roughly disk-shaped piece of shiny hard something. It didn’t look like any plastic I’d ever seen, and there was nothing written on it, nothing to explain why anyone would give a toss who received such a thing. But clearly someone did.”
Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

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Marina Finlayson They were very yummy! I see you're a quilter too -- there's a lot of us about!


Carolyn (on vacation) Thanks for the friend request Marina. Looking forward to seeing what you like to read. Love the strawberry Santas!


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