Where do ideas come from? How do we develop them? Do characters shape plot, or does the plot shape the character? How do we make dialogue...

I have just released the first podcast in my new series on aspect of writing fiction. I hear so many people say ‘Oh, I’d love to write a...

Today was the Winter Solstice, and the morning began all drizzly grey and cold, here in Sydney. This afternoon, the sun removed its veil...

Last week I decided I was becoming stale – the worst obstacle to creativity after writer’s block. Having blitzed Children of the Vines...

Wanting to write, intending to write, finding it difficult to write! I keep telling myself that social isolation is the perfect...

COVID 19 has created havoc in everyone's life. I feel so sad for performers, hospitality and service industry workers - everyone whose...

At last! The rains have come to New South Wales, drowning the bushfires and bringing some relief to our farmers who have suffered cruelly...

After more than a year of consistent hard work, I've finished Book 2 of The Children of Myth trilogy. Children of the Vines is ready to...

It's been a while since I posted - busy days turned into weeks, then months, and before I knew it, the year had almost passed. I'm just...

As I work on 'Children of the Vines', the second novel in the trilogy, 'The Children of Myth', I've been revisiting the photographs I...