In fact it has landed, right on my birthday! August started with a marathon (for me) road trip up to Far North Queensland in our motorhome. The ultimate destination was the Books In Paradise writers/readers event at the Pullman resort in Port Douglas. We spent a week getting up there, exploring parts of the state we'd never been to. The temperatures were not our usual winter ones—warm even for Brisbane. The best time to visit, I'd say. We saw cassowaries on road signs, and lu

This applies to both the weather and my appreciation of Sauvignon Blanc. After the craziness of the last couple of months, promoting The Spirit Remains, July has been relatively calm. Some of our bird life There are things coming up next month—whoops, this month—but for now I'm enjoying the serenity of our tiny home up on the Sunshine Coast. Tomorrow we leave on the first leg of our motorhome road trip up to Port Douglas, a mere 3304 kms altogether. We'll return elated or div

June has been a month of promotion. Tiring, but hopefully worth it. There have been magazine ads and giveaways, radio interviews and newspaper articles. To save words, below are some relevant pics. Needless to say, I'm quite relieved to be smelling the roses occasionally again, and have had time to continue my Leather Lane story. In between all this promo stuff I've managed some family time, which is the reason I spend half my time this side of the ditch. You can't beat a cou

May began with Ages of Pages Bookfair in Hamilton, NZ, old stamping ground of Riff Raff (aka Richard O'Brien). This year it was much bigger, with over 140 authors represented, including moi. I used my new banner for the first time and I must say it looks pretty good. My sales weren't brilliant, but I met up with old and new friends, which is always positive. Shortly on the heels of the book fair was my trip to Colville on the Coromandel Peninsula for the week-long writers' re

As of yesterday, April 29th, all the books in the 'Our Unbroken Spirits' series are available to purchase in both print and ebook form. The first two are also available as audiobooks. Just jump onto your usual platform and you should find them all. So , where to now? Tomorrow I head off to Hamilton (New Zealand) for the Ages of Pages book fair, which is getting bigger every year. There will be over 140 authors there to speak to and buy from. I have a half table, but perhaps n

Despite promising myself I'd take a break after Book 3, while waiting for 'The Spirit Remains' to come out, I couldn't help myself—I started another book. It's a prequel this time, called 'Voices of Leather Lane (Before the Curtain)' . It starts in 1750 and leads up to the Joseph Greenwood story one hundred years later. More about that next month, perhaps. Working cover Meanwhile, the final interior and cover has been done for Book 3, and the remastered covers of Books 1 an

I'm back in New Zealand, adjusting to working around house renovations. They'll be good when they're finished. Meanwhile, I'm in one room with a fridge, a bed and my laptop. What more could I need? I received my manuscript back from my editor and spent a weekend fixing a few things up before sending it back and then getting the final stamp of approval. Yay. So now it's onto promotion while I wait for the publisher to do his thing. He'll format it, organise the new covers and

This isn't January, but I was a bit busy finishing my book. My editor found a spot for me a couple of months ahead of schedule, and I took it. Then I realised what I'd done! Anyway, I pushed the date out a week or two, after discovering that it's almost impossible to type in the back of a motorhome whilst travelling at 100kph on a back road, and I got there. So this blog post has one main theme and a couple of other minor bits of news. At the beginning of January I discovered

from Good Acre Books It's actually 3pm on December 31st, 2025, but since this is the December newsletter, I'm running out of time. It's a balmy 31 degrees today, so I'm sitting outside on the balcony watching pelicans chase the fishing boats on the Brisbane River. The last few weeks in New Zealand were fairly hectic, not with writing, but with organising a new bathroom and kitchen to go in while I'm away. Who'dathought there were so many decisions to be made? I just want hand

One week into December, but I'm pretending it's the end of November. I'm a bit late with this one, my main excuse being I took on the ProWritingAid NovNov Challenge, where you write 50k words during the month of November. I didn't quite make that, but I did achieve 25k, which is a record for me. That brings me to nearly half way through Our Unbroken Spirits. Wow. I could probably slow down now. In November I attended the Escape Festival in Tauranga, where I saw two of my fav