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While editing the manuscript for Hidden Duchess, I’ve made the conscious decision to change a couple of chapters from one character’s perspective to another. Today, I’m explaining why I would go to all that trouble – and why writers should be looking at their stories from different angles, to give their readers the very best experience […]

What do you do when you have a thousand different stories swirling around in your head? I’m asking, because its a problem I struggle with all the time – I have a lovely novel all lined up in my head, and I’ll be writing along merrily, then another idea will swamp me. Then another. Then […]

This past two weeks has got to have been one of the most emotionally topsy-turvy of my life. First of all, we took the heart-wrenching decision to cut our losses, and sell our house to cover all of our debts. There is something so tragic about working so hard to accomplish something so big, and then […]

I’ve missed a few months of book reviews – not that I haven’t been reading books, its more that I’ve been too slack to write the reviews! Actually, I think I’ve probably posted a few on Amazon and Goodreads in the past few months, but here are three that I definitely read in May: If […]

Recently, I read a Facebook post from a fellow member of the Romance Writers of Australia that lamented over a speech they had heard from Paula Hawkins, author of “Girl on the Train”, where she apparently dissed chick lit. But that wasn’t what grabbed me about the discussion. It was a post that suggested that […]

Amongst my novels in progress is my nearly-twenty-year-old manuscript called The Hidden Duchess. It’s set in the time leading up to the French Revolution (1788-1789) and follows the fortunes of a Duchess who is wrongly accused of murdering her husband, and who is forced into hiding amongst the peasant classes far away from her beloved Paris. […]

Plotter or pantser? It’s a question we writers ask each other a lot – are you a plotter, that is, do you know the details and progression of your story before you write it? Are all your duckies in a row before you even write a single word? Or are you a pantser – writing by […]

Hi everyone! Desiree insisted that I let her post an open letter to you all today. And if you know Desiree at all, you’ll know she isn’t someone to cross, unless you want to catch the harsh side of her tongue. I’m happy not to do that, so without further ado, I’d like to introduce […]

I was working out my schedule for the next three months the other day, trying to fit in three different writing projects, uni, nice things for other people that I’ve said I will do, socialising (otherwise known as remembering what my friends look like), bookkeeping type stuff for my partner and, well, sleeping. It didn’t […]

Creating new characters is always a blast for me. At the end of writing a first draft, my story might be full of plot holes and unforgivable timeline errors and no real story arc, but by then, I know my characters. I know what they look like, what they think, how they act in certain […]