The Week: 4th – 10th June
Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin – with the National Carillon (a gift from the Queen that she personally opened in 1970) – late on Saturday afternoon. It was a surprisingly dreary week here. Usually...
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Honestly? Even after reading the book’s description, I still can’t figure out what’s going on here!
View ArticleChinese writer sentenced to 10 years behind bars.
An author in China has just been sentenced to over a decade in prison for writing a book with homosexual scenes. You can read more HERE, and I’ve shared a few paragraphs of the story below. Chinese...
View ArticleThe Week: 19th – 25th November
One month until Christmas! I’m going to be decorating and wrapping things next weekend… 100 Years at Australian Parliament, Canberra. Goodreads Choice Awards Out Now: The Widow of Ballarat by Darry...
View ArticleRemember “Romantica”?
Around a decade ago, everyone in the romance community was talking about a new subgenre: “Romantica”. It was when romances started getting super-steamy, but they also had the classic romance-genre...
View ArticleThe Week: 11th – 17th March
Happy St Patrick’s Day! (And happy birthday to my uncle, whose middle name is – you guessed it – Patrick!). What a terrible week for New Zealand. I don’t think there’s anything that can be said about...
View ArticleThe Mister by E.L. James. Just… no.
I wrote a full thousand words about E.L. Fifty Shades James’ new book (which came out this week), a book that turns the sex trafficking of Southern and Eastern European women – and the women...
View ArticleThe Week: 15th – 21st April
Mid-autumn in Canberra, and it’s still summer dress weather. And I saw on the news that it is snowing on the other side of the country! What is going on? A random ibis at the cemetery in Queanbeyan on...
View ArticleThe Week: 6th – 12th May
Busy week this week. I have edits to do on my book (which has a new title, but I won’t share it until everything is confirmed), and I was editing a book for someone else. Plus something weird happened...
View ArticleThe Week: 13th – 19th May
When this post goes up I should be in Sydney. It’s just an overnight trip to see The Australian Ballet’s closing night performance of Giselle at the Opera House. It’s my favourite ballet, and the last...
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