OK, now I know I’m supposed to blog Something Meaningful, but I have Puppy Brain after nearly six weeks of assisting my mother’s border collie with her first litter. I have had about 45 minutes sleep since October. And so I’m going to post some gratuitous puppy photos instead.
Poison Bay: The next big thing?
I’ve been invited to take part in a “blog tag” called The Next Big Thing. This means I write about my upcoming novel POISON BAY this week, answering a set of questions. At the end of this post, I will also “tag” several other writers who will write about their own books.
Dogs And Cats And Expectations
Are you a dog person or a cat person? Or maybe you favour horses, canaries or gerbils? Heck, I like the lot of them. I have to admit that even snakes can be quite beautiful, when they are not anywhere near me or biting my dog. But what has this got to do with the […]
What Cradle Mountain taught me about knowing when to stop
Have you ever soldiered on with something because you started it and you were determined to finish it, even though it ended up giving you little pleasure and the final outcome wasn’t really what you wanted? I certainly have. I’m persistent to a fault. But I learned something while hiking up a beautiful mountain, and […]
Dad’s dressing gown and the stages of grief
I have an enduring mental image of my Dad: he is rugged up in his flannelette pjs, a red woollen dressing gown belted over the top. You know the kind of dressing gown – woollen plaid, warm but a bit scratchy. The kind of thing men of a certain age love to wear on chilly […]
Book Trailers Actually Work!
For the first time in my life, I bought a book because I saw a book trailer. Yes I did! Here’s the story…