Down Under Wonderings

I've started up a new hash tag that aims to give social media advice for both published and aspiring writers. Look for #writersmtip (n...

It's here! Well, not quite yet. The submission windows for the semi-annual Pitch Madness go live on Saturday, September 1 a...

Meet Nermal, my v'logging pal.   He likes sleeping,   v'loging and chasing plot bunnies.  And today we...

MS editor extraordinaire, Aimee Salter, has stopped by today to give away a first chapter critique – yah!   She critiqued my manuscript, ...

Pitch Madness is coming up in September (genres tbd). We already have 8 agents signed up! Submission windows will be on September 1 ...

My friend and awesome author, Jeyn Roberts, has started a new YA forum - The YA Book Club -  where you can connect with authors, share you...

I must confess that I used to be so against eReaders. I just didn't get it. For most of my day I'm stuck looking at a computer wh...

I have crawled out of my editing cave. My manuscript is off to my agent and I'm getting back into the writing groove with my work-in-p...

A quick post guys to let you know that last week I signed with new Australian Agent Kelly Mclean. Kelly is hungry to sell my work and sh...

This is a special post for the people who attended my presentations at the Whitsunday Voices Youth Literature Festival.  Thanks so much ...

My Week in Pictures I watch drama unfold on the Internet I did some Beta editing I got sick - ugh I got a nice surpr...

I announced last month on YAtopia that I will be a guest speaker at  The Whitsunday Voices Youth Festival this year - "Words Take F...

Two good friends of mine have joined up for a giveaway! Novelist Deena Shoemaker has a Sweet Evil promotion on her blog You're Ab...

My good friend and critique partner, Wendy Higgins, has her first book Sweet Evil  coming out 1 May - Squee! I will be doing a giveaway t...

Over the past day and a bit, I've been reading a lot on the debate about the scrapping of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. ...

It's Australian Author Month and Premier Newman has shown how much he appreciates his state's author by scraping the Queensland Prem...

I'm not shy about the fact that I'm a proud Australian and I'd love to see Aussies more prominent in the international literatur...

Last month I held a contest for the best way to describe a novel using other novels, movies or shows. I judged it on accuracy for when I had...

Brenda Drake, Shelly Walters and Cassandra Marshall recently help a PitchMadness contest where agents got to bid on 60 pitches posted on th...

This is a belated International Women's Day post. I've been noticing a trend. There are so many inspiring female YA authors out th...