We in Western Australia –bordered by the Indian Ocean–have been benefiting visually from the Tonga volcanic mid-January eruption in the Pacific, 7000 thousand kilometres distant, and we are still getting brilliant post-sunset glows high in the sky after the setting … Continue reading
I’ve had a lovely message from a reader who read The Isles of Glory in French, and wrote to tell me so. In French. Happily, I didn’t have to resort too much to Google for a translation. I did learn … Continue reading
I am trying to have some investigative medical procedures done, but it is difficult to get a place in the hospital queue without something going wrong due to illness of staff, or absence of beds, or something. I have not … Continue reading
It has been a long time coming as a lot has happened in my life since my past published book. The story is now in search of a home. It is a standalone fantasy novel, set in a new world … Continue reading
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
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
