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Husband Sit Quiz $20 Amazon Giftcard prize

If you’ve read HUSBAND SIT – Jill and Finn’s madcap romance – (and made it out alive!), I’d like to invite you to my latest contest where you can win a $20 Gift Card from Amazon.

Pop over to my Facebook Author Page, click on the GIVEAWAY tab and you’ll find the Rafflecopter form. Answer a simple question from the book and in a few short weeks you could be the winner!

Note: Facebook is not responsible for this contest. One winner will be chosen randomly from the entries by Rafflecopter. The co...

Facebook launch party + giveaways

Moet – check! Pajamas – check! Prizes to give away – check!

Looks like we’re all ready for our raunch-a-rific launch party forHusband Sit, the most unique erotic, romantic comedy you’re ever likely to read.

If you’d like to help us celebrate in style (you can wear pajamas too – it’s all happening on Facebook) come over to our events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/469173016607422/ and click the GOING button. Facebook should remind you about the party when it’s due – 17th Feb – so you c...

Release news: a new erotic romance series

I’m thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Book #1 of my new Husband Series of erotic romance novels with a side of laughs. Here’s the back cover blurb:

Husband Sit: Jill Wilson is fresh out of a ten-year relationship so boring she slept through half of it. Thirty-something, no children, no house, blah. The glamorous potential she and her three best friends shared as starry-eyed schoolgirls feels very far away, until an unlikely job appears – Husband Sitting – being paid by rich wives t...

A fantasy author’s FAQs

If you’ve ever wondered where a fantasy author gets her ideas, what the greatest challenge of the job is, how to create fantasy worldbuilding, how to work with computer game companies… These and many more fascinating questions will be all answered! Pinky promise.

Whatever happened to the Jetsons?

I’m an author of fantasy and romance, but one day I hope to write science fiction, so it’s a habit of mine to explore ideas about what the future might be. Yesterday, however, my musing triggered a sudden, sharp excursion into the past – a memory of my father, way back in the sixties, saying “When you’re my age, you’ll be living like the Jetsons. Life will be all about leisure time and travel. Holidays! People will have lots of holidays.” He was convinced that everything labor-intensive in hi...

Goodbye Winter in Australia

We’re not quite to the end of August, but my first freesia flowered today, the weather is warmer and kangaroos are racing around with a new spring in their hop, so I’m ready to let go of the cold weather (not that it really gets all that cold here by the beautiful Coral Sea just outside Bundaberg) and herald in the warmer temperatures with a few of my favorite winter recipes:

Breakfast of champions: Hot custard (as thick as you can make it) topped with toasted muesli

Lunch: Potatoes mashed wi...

Go Set a Watchman is Awesome

I want to defend Go Set a Watchman, because I loved it, and because I’m tired of reading superficial OMG Atticus is a racist slams by people who aren’t even commenting on the story itself.

Nikki Gemmell’s column To mock a masterpiece in the weekend Australian magazine a fortnight ago said of Watchman and its author: “It’s a dated mess of a book and damaging to her legacy,” as well as “Watchman is nothing more than an off-cut, a scrap of cloth from the sewing room’s leftovers basket.”

I couldn...

The adoration of Gilmore Girls and other unlikely franchise fetishes

So I’m channel surfing and happen to click onto an episode of Gilmore Girls. Without conscious volition, I squeal, “Oh my God, Gilmore Girls!” I put the remote to one side, away from my viewing partner, away from any chance that the channel might be changed. Because for the next twenty minutes, or however long the episode lasts, I’m watching it.

It’s like finding the last few squares of a family block of Cadbury and deciding their mine. Completely selfish, but I’m not sharing. And when the te...

Rainy weather is writing weather

This was my morning (thanks to Lisa at Blainey for my beautiful coffee cup).

If you’re not a writer yourself, you might not realize that writing and water are intrinsically linked. It’s one of the reasons I moved to the beach, so I’d have those crashing waves. The sound of running water (having a shower, hosing the lawn) can loosen up the most stubborn writers block. So rainy days are a gift to writers, no matter where they live.

But don’t imagine you have to be a professional to benefit. Any...

Kangaroos by the Coral Sea

In the aftermath of Cyclone Marcia roaring down the Queensland coast, we’ve had some delightful visits from kangaroos, and I had to share a clip of this family crossing the road near my place. The joey on the road with his paws up to stop a car (which did stop) is particularly cute:

(Apologies for the dirty window and unsteady camera. I’m learning!) You wouldn’t think wild life would inspire love stories, but trust me, this does!