Seasons

I love my lilac trees. (Not as much in autum when they drop their leaves everywhere and the gutters get blocked) But right now they are full of tiny flowers that sprinkle down in the breeze like snow. (actually I wouldn’t know, I’m guessing here as i’ve never seen snow!) Their leaves provide us with
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Author writing spaces

I have another photo of an authors area of writing. I had to wait for the lucky Kylie Ladd to come home from her travels but it was worth the wait to see such a gorgeous bookshelf. I read After the Fall a while back and loved how Kylie dived into all those complicated feelings.
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Wildflowers

On the weekend we played our wind-up day of golf. There was only six of us (huge club, I know) but we had a gorgeous day, the sun was warm and all the flowers were out. My golf was so wonderful that I spent most of my time in the bush taking photo’s of the
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Author Areas

A few more pictures have come in so i’ll share these with you. This first one I’ve actually seen on TV. And I love the fact that Matthew likes to surround himself with toys, posters and figurines from his favourite movies to inspire him. He looks really happy to be there…sometimes I can’t stand my
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Author spaces

This time i’d like to share Lisa Heidke‘s writing spaces. She’s the lovely author of What Kate did Next, Claudia’s Big Break and Lucy Springer Gets Even. (I’m sure she’s busy writing away on her next book, no doubt using the area’s below) Lisa: “This is where I work when I have to…in other words
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More writing spaces

My next author has some very amazing writing spaces. (I’m jealous of these authors who get to mix travel and writing.) I’m so excited to show you Tony Park’s work areas. Tony writes about Africa so vividly in his books, you can tell he loves it. African Dawn is his latest book, which is going
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Writing spaces part 3

Okay, I’m back again with the next round of author’s and their special places. I was hoping to get this up on Friday but I had to work at the shop. But now I have the whole weekend to put this one together. This time we’ll start with Cathryn Hein. You would have seen her
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Amazing people

Just a quick blog to do a ‘shout out’ to Cathryn Harris who has won the SA – Nokia Business Innovation Award for 2011. As the Mount Gambier Library manager, I met Cathryn earlier this year when she organised for me to travel to their amazing library to talk about my recent book. It was
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Writing spaces part 2

Hopefully you are eagerly waiting to see into the next few authors private writing spaces…I know I am. I find it so fascinating! Well I won’t dribble on and make you wait. Here are the next few: First up I have Rachael Treasure, who is, in my mind, the Queen of the rural genre. Her
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Writing spaces – part 1

I don’t know about you guys, but I love getting glimpses into writers lives. It’s one of the reasons I love reading the acknowledgements in the books I love. So this is what inspired the next few blogs on ‘writing spaces’. I have asked a few of my writing friends for a snap shot into
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