They say you put a little piece of yourself into every story you write. With my Perth Girls series, each of the three heroines definitely got a piece of me, or should I say, I gave them a piece. They are my ‘write what you know’ stories, so it made sense to give those […]
Update: The Quiet One
It’s been a wonderfully hectic few weeks. I’ve been working to get my novel, The Quiet One, organised for publication on 31 March 2016. Squee! I’m so excited to finally have one of my works out in the public eye! I decided to self-publish my contemporary romance novel series, and pitch my historical novel to […]
One Hundred Day Goal Here I Come!
You might remember in my last post, I said I preferred ‘plans’ to ‘goals’. So why, now, am I setting a goal and striving for it? Basically, I’m teaching myself how to stop faffing around, and just write the damn book. The Quiet One, my first novel, was supposed to be published by now. […]
Yay! It’s finished! Now off to the publisher, right? Not quite…
The other day, I finished writing the manuscript for Perth Girls – The Quiet One. It’s the first time I’ve actually finished a novel manuscript. There’s an incredibly strange bunch of feelings that goes along with finishing a manuscript. You’d think euphoria would be right there at the top. And for five glorious seconds, it […]