Softcover Publication Day: UK

Look what I found on my doorstep when I came home on Friday! How generous is my publisher, Headline! They could send me nothing and I would still be enamoured by them – yet the send me the most beautiful bunch of flowers to celebrate the softcover edition publication in the UK of the Bay…

Cooking for the Kindy Fete

Yesterday, while my husband was at Noosa having a weekend away with his friends, I made chutney, something I have always wanted to make. It was fun. Thankfully my kids helped me with some of the preparation. Miles chopped tomatos… Scarlett chopped garlic… They both peeled the garlic… My stove top is old and only…

Something Rotten in the Apple Isle

What do these three books have in common? The answer is, they are all Tasmanian murder mysteries published this year. The two authors, Livia Day and Josephine Pennicott, and I will appear at a book event on June 14 in Melbourne. It is called Something Rotten in the Apple Isle and it’s going to be…

The Australian reviews Bay of Fires

What a surprise I received on Saturday when I sat down in my local cafe, Salt, and opened The Weekend Australian. As usual, I turned straight to the Review section. On a lovely right hand page beneath a headline that announced New Australian Fiction, was a bright image of my novel Bay of Fires, and…