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In October, Sisters in Crime are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a HUGE convention called SheKilda. It’s on from 7-9th October at Rydge’s Hotel in Melbourne, and there will be heaps of women crime writers from Australia and overseas, plus … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I went to see ‘From Time to Time’, a movie based on a children’s novel by L.M. Boston. I was eager to see it, and I suppose it’s always a danger, seeing the film of … Continue reading →

  Finding time is the key to a life filled with happy work. Kenneth Atchity A friend has loaned me a book called A Writer’s Time by Kenneth Atchity. The subtitle is Making the Time to Write. Even though I … Continue reading →

No, not best poems about the underground – political movement or home of worms and tunneling creatures – but best poems on the London Tube. When I went to the UK with my mother in September 1986 we travelled everywhere … Continue reading →

The theme this week is bits and pieces. I have been trying to impose order on my bulging filing cabinet, and so I’ve had a purge. Lots of paper went straight to the bin, while a small pile for ‘keep’ and … Continue reading →

This is how I became a reader, and then a writer. Reading came first, but not easily. Perhaps I started school too young – only 4 – but my mother always told me that I had had all sorts of … Continue reading →

I WAS A TEENAGE FASHION VICTIM! Fashion Can Be Fatal is the first – and only – non-fiction book I’ve written. The lovely, witty and very kind Robyn Annear is a fellow Castlemaine resident and author of the award-winning Bearbrass … Continue reading →