Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, where Kate from booksaremyfavouriteandbest gives us the title of a book, and we link it to six others in any way we want. Please join in – it’s easy and fun, and I’d love to hear the random connections your mind makes! This month’s starting book is Pride and Prejudice, […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by a bunch of ‘college aged and twenty somethings’ over at Broke and the Bookish, who would ‘spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals’. One of their Top Ten Tuesday topics is ‘Ten books you’d buy right this second if someone […]
My writing journey has involved traversing a long, winding path with numerous detours and roadblocks, sometimes entire landslides, but I’m slowly learning that nothing we do or experience is wasted – even discarded words and manuscripts. I really do believe that without the countless writing exercises I’ve attempted, hundreds of thousands of words scribbled in […]
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 […]