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 […]
Welcome to the new look Treefall Writing! Over the last little while, Ian from IC-TECH has been building me a new website/blog space from scratch. As of Thursday 17 September 2015, I can be be found here, at www.melindatognini.com.au. The web address is not all that different (I was at melindatogninini.com, so the only differences […]
With the Second World War and its aftermath at the core of Many Hearts, One Voice: the story of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia, the events of that time period have been on my mind for quite some time. I was therefore a little surprised (but probably shouldn’t have been) that the 70th anniversary […]
This week we are grieving the loss of little Levi Wibberley, the beautiful Perth boy who has touched the lives of many, and whose story I shared as one of the very first posts on this blog. Levi was born with Krabbe disease, a rare degenerative disorder, and passed away in the early hours of Wednesday 6 May 2015, aged […]
This Sunday, 8 March marks International Women’s Day, where we are encouraged to recognise the achievements of women, while calling for great equality. And it’s not only men who need to do their part, argues my sister-in-law, Gemma Tognini, a former television journalist, who founded and is now managing director of corporate communication and PR […]