The Plague: Journey to a Book #1 – Freefall Writing a First Draft

If you read my last Journey to a Book post, you’ll know that based on feedback from the agent who read Monkey See, (which…

Monkey See: Journey to a Book (Part 3) – Structural Edit & Back-Story

For most of last year I worked on a structural edit of my novel Monkey See, based on some very detailed and insightful feedback from…

Many years ago I worked as teacher’s aide at St Kilda Primary School. During that period I became VERY familiar with the list of…

Alright, I admit, it was mostly a holiday, but I I did do two bookshop events and I met my publisher so I can…

I recently finished the first draft of my fourth novel Monkey See, which I have been writing, on and off, for a year and a…

Today is US publication day for my novel Whiskey & Charlie (published in Australia as Whisky Charlie Foxtrot). The process of writing, editing…

In January this year I found out that Sourcebooks in the US wanted to publish Whisky Charlie Foxtrot. Cue: hysterical screaming! As a writer,…

For me, the least enticing part of writing a book is re-writing. But I also know that it is a hugely important part,…

I planned to do a monthly update on my work-in-progress The Ark but time seems to have got away from me and it’s almost 9…

Inspiration I began writing my third novel, The Ark, almost four years ago, in September 2009. I couldn’t stop thinking about Adrian Atkinson’s…