Category: Books
-
Six rules for giving away your books
Moving house sucks. And as much I love my book collection, I’ve used the opportunity to give away some of my books. But how can I give them away? For many of my bookworm friends, parting with a book is like parting with a limb. It’s an emotional, traumatic experience. What if I need that…
-
The 20 Greatest Books of All Time (according to me)
Yes, these are the 20 greatest books of all time. According to me, rather opinionated lady writer.
-
A Femme Fatale, Samurai and Jane Austen: Good Books – Summer 2017
Some months, there’s a unifying theme to the good books I read. And sometimes, you get a femme fatale, gymnastics parents, samurais, private eye cats and Jane Austen.
-
And Then… the Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales Vol 1 Now Available
I’m stoked to be in my first anthology ever with some amazing Australian authors! And Then… the Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales Vol 1 is now available as an e-book, with paperback to come. It includes my short story, In the Company of Rogues, a satire on all the tropes in the epic…
-
The Best Genre Books I read in 2016
Each year I take some time to reflect on the books I’ve read throughout the year. I read 67 books in 2016, which is a recent record for me. You can see almost all of them on Goodreads, but I wanted to highlight some of the special ones in my unofficial awards below. These books are…
-
How I wrote a novel in nine months
At the start of the year I wrote about my goal to write a novel in a year. I’ve just finished the first draft, all in the space of nine months. I’m not the world’s fastest writer, nor am I the slowest. But the point is, I have 250 pages of work which make sense from…