Favourites
I was inspired by Sarah Todman's wonderful Instagram poetry this week to have a go creating my own Insta-poem - and here it is. “Who’s your favourite daughter?”“The dog,” I…
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21 December 2024
The Full Beta
My lovely wife has edited all 349 pages of ‘Somewhere In Between’ - not just a beta read , but a full line edit, with structural suggestions and a decent…
29 September 2024
Pitching Meditation
The results are in after pitching ‘Somewhere In Between’ to three publishers at the Romance Writers of Australia conference in Adelaide this year. I was rejected three times, but I…
28 September 2024
5 Radiantly Repetitive Quotes
There is something compelling about repetition in art. Some of my favourite songs go on forever, repeating the same beats endlessly, some of my favourite paintings are eternally repeated patterns…
17 September 2024
12 Comforting Things To Bring On A Meditation Retreat
My work in progress novel, Somewhere In Between, is a romance set over a series of beginners meditation classes and (slight spoiler alert), towards the end of act 2, the…
10 September 2024
Love and Judd Apatow
This post containers spoilers for Love - but the show is over 5 years old so it feels like a legitimate move. Also slight spoilers for three other Judd Apatow…
3 September 2024
ADHD Disasters: Destroying The Laundry Door
A few weeks ago I got locked out of my house. I was pottering round in the garden when my wife and daughter bid me a cheery farewell and tootled…
27 August 2024
Romantic versus Romance
I was in a taxi this week with a fellow romance writer, on the way to the annual Romance Writers Conference in Glenelg, Adelaide. The taxi driver realised we were…
20 August 2024
A Year Of Writing: The Misconceptions
A year ago I started writing my first novel, at that point called ’Softening.’ and now called ‘Somewhere In Between’. A year later and I’m still writing it. A lot…
13 August 2024
A Year Of Writing: The Stats
It’s been about a year since I picked up a scruffy notepad and wrote the first few scenes of a comedy novel while watching breakfast TV. One year later and…
11 August 2024
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