And Katy, you may feel that time is passing you by. It is so tough to get published, and very few of us get a book out before we are thirty. (I was MUCH slower.) Keep trying! And remember that every word you write is perfecting your skills.

You probably don't remember me from the class you taught one day at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre in Perth… I was but a hopeful 16 year old writer. I am now 26, and am still yet to be published, but I have followed you from afar all this time. You told me my work was good enough, and that I had a chance, and I still hold onto that to this day, a decade later.

So, from a fan who has followed your journey and loved your stories, I just wanted to take a moment to share my condolences. Dorothy sounds like she was an incredible woman and agent, and this was a beautiful, moving tribute to her memory.

I know she would have appreciated the last pages you sent her. Showing just how much she meant to you.

I hope with time, your heart heals and finds peace. It's never easy losing a friend.

Sending my love from Nannup, WA xox