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Today we celebrate our Australia Day, with a date that upsets many of our first citizens. Which doesn’t sit well with me. (Why on earth would we want to do that??) But quite apart from that , it really annoys … Continue reading
Glenda Larke
We are about to have a week of temperatures around 100f / 39c so I’m posting a photo of me taken on our back porch around this time of the year in Vienna, Austria. In the 1980s or early 90s.From … Continue reading
Just had my half-year statement from one of my foreign language publishers. This is for 3 books published quite a few years ago, now only being sold as eBooks, so virtually not costing the publisher much at all at the … Continue reading
Today I listened to Beethoven’s 9th. Back 32 years ago, in 1989, Christmas Day… there was a pivotal moment in my life that I remember mostly for its symbolism. I was born during the latter stages of WW2, but I … Continue reading
Among other things (like working on the copy edited MS of my latest book), I have been sorting through the photos and letters that record bits and pieces of my father’s war history.That’s the First World War, not the second. … Continue reading
NEWS : my new book — a standalone — is now with the editor. Not long to wait… In the meantime I’ve been digging into family history, and today came across a newspaper cutting pasted into my mum’s 1988 diary … Continue reading
Sometimes the task seems overwhelming. Which is what I am feeling at the moment. I have to do a final edit on the latest book, and while the story is fine, it’s not in the right order. And the trouble … Continue reading
It has been a long time since I updated my blog…but I am back. OUR SITUATION:A lot has happened, not all of it good, much of it related to the health of my husband and me. And of course, Covid … Continue reading
We all know that feeling. You start reading a book, even perhaps a best seller, and after a few pages you think to yourself, ‘How on earth did this ever get into print? I could do better!’ When you’re unpublished, … Continue reading
The action scenes? The dialogues? The beginning? Climax? Nope, none of the above. It’s those horrible dull bits. Because you’ve got to write them so they aren’t dull. It’s the bits that, if you leave them out, readers are going to ask: … Continue reading