After a long hot summer we’ve just had our first real taste of winter when the door from the Antarctic deep freeze opened and we had the first snow of the season. Where we live, we seldom get snowfalls and if we do they are very light and gone almost before we can blink. With […]

My New Book The Farmer Takes A Wife Book III The Mulleins of Katherine Bay is now live on Amazon https://amzn.com/B00CJQGEOO Heath Mullein had heard the old adage ‘Be careful what you wish for…you just might get it’ … when his teenage sweetheart arrives on his doorstep, he thought all his dreams had come true… […]

Today we pause… Two nations…Australia and New Zealand…proud of the ANZAC spirit forged on the battle fields of Gallipoli in 1915. We honour the men who paid the ultimate sacrifice that we may live a life under democratic rule. Several of my ancestors died at Gallipoli…. I salute you… you are gone but never forgotten. […]

10 things I love about e-books They don’t gather dust. You can buy a new one and your better half doesn’t groan…where will you put that. A new kindle is easier to hide than 800 books. The pile on the bedside table won’t collapse on me while I sleep. Toddlers and children can’t […]

    Borrowing My Mother’s Saints by Olga G Soaje Welcome to my blog Olga, and thank you for visiting today! Tell us a little about yourself Thank you so much for having me. Since I can remember I loved to read, always having a book in the car or in my bag just in […]

I have joined forces with three other Kiwi Indie Published authors in creating a boxed set of romance novels set in our little corner of the world. Passion In Paradise https://amzn.com/B00CBJC20E is available on Amazon for a limited time only . Great reading an great value. Save $9 on this $0.99 collection of romances set […]

It is sobering to work with a development editor. When every sentence, every punctuation mark comes under some-one else’s scrutiny it makes an author take a hard critical look at their work. When it’s pointed out….that this sentence takes away from the drama of a scene… or this description of a character should have appeared a few […]

Yesterday Waihi shook off its small town image People dress up for the Beach Hop…the late summer event that sets the Coromandel alight.   It was a carnival of colour and nostalgia when the cars and the people came to town to celebrate the Pre-Beach Hop.   The Beach Hop happens in Whangamata every year […]

This weekend I attended a seminar on Marketing and Promotion for Indie Publishers. As a part of New Zealand Bookweek the Tauranga Writers in association with Ocean Books www.oceanbooks.co.nz hosted this seminar with guest speakers New Zealand author James George and his Storybridge partner Jocelyn Watkin… https://thestorybridge.blogspot.co.nz I came away from this seminar greatly inspired with my belief in […]

Jane Beckenham has invited me onto her blog to talk about Indie Publishing the ups and downs. You can read the interview on her blog https://janebeckenham.com/blog/   Jane is a fellow member of RWNZ and is a multi-published author of contemporary and historical Romance and is currently has a novel contracted to Entangled’s Indulgence line. […]