A Family Guide to Taupo Although I covered our travels to New Zealand earlier this year, I thought today I would focus a spotlight on Taupo. I believe it is an ideal place to base yourself if you’re the north island of New Zealand. Families with children of various ages can take advantage of the vast…
Read / September 26th, 2016
There are months I feel confident I’ll be able to talk about my reading with some level of intelligence and (I hope) insight; then there are times when I almost want to skip this post completely because I’m still wrestling with what I want to say. This isn’t to suggest that what I have to…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Fourteen When I wrote this post, I was in the middle of my 20K by 20 June challenge – a target I set myself in order to finish off my young adult novel, which I was able to do. It did pretty well at the time in terms of page…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Thirteen A very quick – and unusually recorded! – episode today. You’ll discover where the cover image for where On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take was taken (if you hadn’t already guessed). You can subscribe at iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud. If you are an android user, Soundcloud has an app…
HERE IT IS, ISN’T IT WONDERFUL?! I’m excited to reveal the cover for On The Many Shapes Bodies Will Take, created by renowned award-winning designer Sandy Cull. The original photo credit belongs to my husband. If you can guess where it was taken, you’ll get extra special brownie points! Crowdfunding Update: We are on the home…
The Creative Life Podcast Episode Twelve Excerpt: I would say that as far as this crowdfunding project has gone, 60% of the work I did was in the lead up to the launch date itself and 40% went into the subsequent marketing and promotion. In order to hit that launch day target I set for…
The Creative Life Podcast Episode Eleven I thought this would be a good time to talk about writing bucket lists because running a crowdfunding project has been one of the items on my own writing bucket lists. Now, my fondness for bucket lists, or Living List, as I’ve called my own, has been touched upon a…
The Creative Life Podcast Episode Ten This week’s guest is Penni Russon. She is author of The Undine Trilogy, The Indigo Girls, Little Bird and other titles including Only Ever Always, which was a winner of the West Australian Premier’s Book Award and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is currently undertaking a PhD and also blogs…
I’ll be honest – this hasn’t been a great month for reading. I was so focused on the crowdfunding launch last week – Already over 1/3 of the way there! Please pledge! – that I’ve been left a bit tired. Okay, so, like the rest of the world I raced through Harry Potter and the…
