

At Ease
I got to interview yet another fascinating Napier local for a Living Hawke's Bay article. This time a retired Naval Attache, so an...


Ethical Fashion
I was thrilled to be invited to write an article for Living HB recently. It's a departure from novels for sure, but was so much fun. I...


Are we there yet? Apparently not...
Yet again we find ourselves in lock down thanks to the virus that shall not be named. I liken it those relatives you're not keen on...


Surfaces darling...
At heart I'm a minimalist. In reality, I'm a pack-rat. A case in point being that I recently celebrated my seven year anniversary living...


Par for the course
If there's one thing lock down taught me, it's that if you practice something enough, it pays off. Case in point would me improving my...


Jane Austen had it easy ...
Don’t get me wrong, writing books is hard, even harder in longhand, but Jane never had to deal with posting on Twitter, Pinterest,...


You have got to be kidding me!
That moment when you’ve just gotten your publisher to take all your books off Kindle Unlimited and you read a book by a very successful...


Paint on, paint off ...
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 26/01/14 Bit quiet on the writing front of late. Been getting the house ready for sale. This has meant a lot of...


The RSI of editing ...
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 04/12/13 I've been putting off attacking the edits from Jayne at Rebel. Avoiding looking at the email, avoiding...


Living like it's 1978
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 19/11/13 It’s been a week of full-on editing for me. I’m working on getting the manuscript as polished as a shiny...