Books, Inspiration, True Stories, Writing
Why Being an Author is Like Being a Top Athlete At the end of the Paris Olympics this year, Sifan Hassan did the unimaginable. She won medals in two long-distance races and then topped it off by winning gold in the marathon. All within 10 days with barely any recovery...
Anais Blue Series, Books, Fiction
10 Signs You Should Invest In A Witch This advice will only apply to you if you no longer inhabit the world of the living. In other words, 10 signs that you are possibly deceased, according to the ground rules of Anaïs Blue series. In Thistle Witch I use the premise...
Books, History, Loreless, Travel, True Stories, Writing
Around the World: Who Has the Right to Write About Indigenous Culture? After Hong Kong, my trip around the world took me back to my birth country: Australia. It had been some years since I had returned and I had assumed the country had progressed. At least in terms of...
Books, Brimstone and Ashes, Inspiration, True Stories, Writing
Recently, Brimstone and Ashes, the story I worked on for more than a year, was published. To be honest, there were times I thought it would never get there. But it has. I can sleep soundly at night. I am still an author! A Year to Forget The past year has been...
Books, Complicated Blue, Inspiration, Writing
Several months ago I took a part-time job to supplement my author activities. I am at the relative beginning of my publishing career and have not yet generated a stable income. Therefore, I became a postman. Apart from the financial aspect, it has also has proven to...
Books, Loreless, Non-fiction, True Stories, Writing
A long time ago, in a land far, far away, a writer slaved over a mechanical typewriter… He didn’t know it at the time but he was writing what would one day become his debut novel. The typewriter had been procured at the local market for the princely sum of...