I’ve pondered how to write this for weeks now, wondering if I should or even could. Funny isn’t it, that I can sit and write thousands of words to tell a love story, but struggle to tie together the right words to explain the heartbreaking events of the last couple of years that tragically came …
I’ve thought about how to write this a hundred times and still I’m sitting here staring at my keyboard. Ridiculous isn’t it? I’m an author so I’m supposed to always have the right words at the right time. Anyone who actually knows me knows I often stumble over my words, say the wrong thing and …
I usually don’t speak too much about my private life to the world – it’s usually books and more books. But I recently did an interview and it asked about my daily schedule. The question actually made me laugh out loud. After I composed myself, I did write an appropriate response, but what I really …
When I started writing the Sins of the Virtuous series, quite a lot of research had to go into them. Amongst the research of the obvious sins and virtues, I wanted to include something for me, and for those readers that were curious to look beyond the story a little. I’m talking about the origin …
Amorous Redemption, a no-longer-available book of mine, was riddled with problems and a restricted plot due to my then-publisher and the interesting way they chose to run their company and treat their authors. After many years later, and after some very hard learnt experience that was forced upon me, I got the rights to all …
Carnal Transgression explores a history of slavery in Australia few are taught about at school. The heroine of the book, Constance Dunbar, was an indentured slave, brought to Australia under the guise of being found honourable work. Sadly, this was not often the case. Thousands of Irish girls were taken from workhouses in the 1800s …
Beachmount, as mentioned in Scandalous Behaviour, was surveyed in 1842 and is situated 6km south of Inkerman. No one can say for definite exactly when people started to construct down there, but houses and huts have been gradually appearing since at least that date. The fishing, the flora, the fauna, the beach, the Aboriginal middens …
Phoebe, the heroine in Lovers Ransom, spends a good part of the book in what was considered men’s clothing. A few people have questioned my choice to dress her, and a lot of my heroines, in jeans in my books as it wasn’t the norm. Which is true – but then the late 1800s in …
If you could interview anyone, past or present, who would it be and what would be your lead question? Agatha Christie. I would ask her how she coped with writing a lead character who she disliked so much. Your most played song/band? Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf Favourite genre of romance? Historical Favourite food? …
My idea for this book was always going to involve the sin of gluttony, but in today’s world we often think of over eating or something similar. After some research into the origins of what the church declared as gluttony I discovered it actually meant indulging in anything to the point of waist be it …
