How Sons of The Shire came to be: Part 1

        I thought I’d start the first blog post with some details around the novel – Sons of The Shire. It’s been a massive process, taking over eight years to write. And what a learning curve…The next book will come out a lot quicker than that…No, seriously, it will.   In the Beginning… Ten years ago, I received a text message. Would anyone like to guess what it said? Here’s the gist: “This Sunday, every Aussie in the Shire get down to North Cronulla to support Leb and Wog bashing day…” Pretty