On Debuting After 50 - Guest Post on Word Mothers

Word Mothers is a website dedicated to women writers, and I am honoured to have my Guest Post, On Debuting After 50, featured on their...

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May 21, 20234 min read

The Fight for Faith and Freedom

A young woman fighting for her faith and her freedom in a dangerous new world. ***Contains spoilers for those who have not read Book 1***...

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Apr 3, 20231 min read

You're Never Too Old To Fall in Love

Delightful and genuinely funny, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village is a great antidote to the way our society trivialises...

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Mar 31, 20231 min read

Coming of Age in a Turbulent World

The Chameleon The Chameleon is a coming of age story about Rorke Wilde, growing up in 1970s Rhodesia in a time of tumultuous political...

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Dec 8, 20222 min read

How to Destroy Your Husband

When the best form of revenge is revenge Some people say that to seek revenge is to dig two graves, others say living well is the best...

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Oct 22, 20221 min read

Another COVID Break Up - oranges journal, June 2022

Women over 50 are amongst the fastest growing cohort of the homeless, and when COVID hit, I thought I would be one of them. Follow the...

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Sep 22, 20221 min read

Cover of Ten Thousand Aftershocks by Michelle Tom. Big block letters in vibrant shades of pink set against a dark background.

A Family as Volatile as The Land They Live On: A memoir of family violence, estrangement and survival

Set during the time of the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, the cracks in this volatile family begin to surface, and bring about seismic change.

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Sep 3, 20222 min read

Queen Menopause: Finding your majesty in the mayhem

In Queen Menopause: Finding Your Majesty in the Mayhem, Alison Daddo gives an intimate and honest account of her journey through...

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Aug 27, 20221 min read

The Wrong Woman - Book Review

Former cop turned private detective, Vince Reid, returns to his hometown to investigate a car crash for the insurance company who hired...

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Aug 22, 20222 min read

The Truth Will Out.

The Wife and the Widow is intriguing from the start. With a haunting setting and fascinating but relatable characters, the story follows...

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Aug 19, 20221 min read

Blackbirch: The Ritual - Book Review

***This review contains spoilers*** I was privileged to be given an advance copy of the third book in this magickal series. K.M. Allan...

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Aug 13, 20222 min read

When Life Becomes A Waking Nightmare.

Denizen is the startling debut novel by award-winning author, James McKenzie Watson. Beautifully written, stark and raw, there were...

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Jul 31, 20222 min read

School's Out Forever.

When the party of a lifetime goes wrong, a group of school leavers will never be the same again. Thanks to Text Publishing for giving me...

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Jul 24, 20223 min read

The Holiday is Over But the Journey Has Just Begun.

March 2021 This time last year, my then husband and I set off on a trip to Japan. It was March 13th, 2020, and there was talk of shutting...

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Jun 28, 20224 min read

We're A Weird Mob.

The sub-zero temperatures of her native Canada prompted Ashley Kalagian Blunt and her husband to seek out the warmer climes of Sydney,...

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Jun 26, 20222 min read

The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants.

Teenaged Patrick is growing up in the 1980s, under the shadow of the deadly virus, AIDS, and the knowledge that revealing his true self...

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Jun 12, 20222 min read

When the Cage Has No Bars.

Living under an assumed name half a world away, former kidnap victim, Kate Stone, remains under the spell of her former captor, and the...

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Jun 4, 20221 min read

Stories of life during a time of unpresented change.

In 2020 I was thrilled to have several of my short stories included in this eclectic anthology, published during the first wave of the...

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Jun 1, 20221 min read

A Love Too Special for the World to Understand?

*** This Review Contains Spoilers*** Thirty-something Vanessa Wye lives in the shadow of her doomed love affair with English teacher,...

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May 15, 20222 min read

Hiding in Plain Sight.

Set in Western Australia, Invisible Boys is about an unlikely alliance between three teenage boys who seem to have nothing in common,...

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Apr 30, 20222 min read

Life in the Time of Corona

In 2020 I was thrilled to have several of my short stories included in this eclectic anthology, published during the first wave of the pandemic. From a tech billionaire, to an Uber driver to child stuck at home on school holidays, "Life in the Time of Corona" explores how everyone has been touched by the global pandemic.

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