Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation. This bookish meme was inspired by the idea that everyone is connected to every other person by no more than six points of separation. I was introduced to this idea while watching the 1993 film of the same name, but it actually originated in a short story called […]
With World Poetry Day just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about the poems that have stayed with me long after I first discovered them. Some have become favourites because of the poets’ language choices, others because of the memories associated with them. But all have remained significant in some way. Here are ten of my favourite […]
Here I sit, tucked away in my cabin in the hills. I’m looking out through the trees to the cityscape, listening to the birdsong, and ruminating over the weekend that was the 2016 Perth Writers Festival. I’ve attended the Perth Writers Festival for a number of years, but this was my first as a published […]
Welcome to Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly meme created by authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman. They provide a book title and we link it to six other books in any way we like. It’s supposed to be posted on the first Saturday of the month, but I’m just scraping in on the last […]
It’s been a crazy few weeks. For those of you I’m already connected to – in person or via social media – you will already know that Many Hearts, One Voice was finally launched on Sunday, 1 November. The launch of Many Hearts, One Voice exceeded my hopes and expectations in more ways than one. Fremantle Press had […]
What have you dared to say yes to? And what was the outcome? When I tell people that my first book is about to be published, the response is usually, Really? Is it a novel? I explain that while I do write fiction, I’ve spent the last eight years researching and writing about war widows. The […]