Who blogs anymore???

If by some chance you’ve come across my website and ended up on my blog page hoping to find new posts…I’m sorry! Life has got far too busy to find time to write posts…I can hardly find time to keep my Facebook and Instagram pages alive (or even update my website for that matter!) Between
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Letter from Loretta Hill

February 2nd Hi Fiona, I can’t believe it’s February already. The kids are back at school and I can breathe again. The January school holidays were very hectic, also due to the fact that my new book, “The Maxwell Sisters” just came out. I’m really excited about this story. This book is as much about
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Harvest

I’ve been a little quiet lately, but there is a good reason for that. Harvest. Now last year I spent harvest writing The Sunnyvale Girls and by the time I came up for air I had one ride in the truck with dad and then harvest was finished. A very weird feeling I must say….felt
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RuRo Roadtrip with Rachael Johns

  It was an Author Talk tour of epic proportions. One blue Holden Commodore with a trailer full of books travelling over 2,400 kilometres across the state of WA. Inside this tardis like vehicle were authors Fiona Palmer (driver) and Rachael Johns (navigator – with the help of WhereIs and our Wog Boy guide). We
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Win a trip to Italy

That’s right, a trip. To celebrate the release of The Sunnyvale Girls go to www.penguin.com.au/competitions submit a review and you could win a trip for two to Italy. (Sadly if you are my friends or family, you can’t enter. Depressing, I know!) I’m so excited about this competition as this time last year I was
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Massive book competition!

Competition now closed! I had a huge response to this competition but there could only be one….. Congratulations to Joanna Kitto!!!! She has been notified and is one happy chick. 🙂 Thank you all for taking the time to enter. I’m now off on my week long WA tour with Rach Johns and this Wednesday
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Outback Magazine

I get the Outback Magazine, which arrives by post, and it’s always an interesting read and the rural photo’s are some of the best. So it was very exciting to be included in the latest issue. It’s wonderful to have this exposure, not just for my book The Outback Heart but for what inspired it
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Fiona Lowe’s Weddings

I have Fiona Lowe, author of 26 books, on my blog! (Yes, I dream of gettting to that number, I’m working on it!) I met Fi many years ago now (she’s another one of those amazingly friendly and supportive RWA ladies) and have attended a few of her sessions on writing. One was in Perth
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Tour with Rachael Johns

I’m very excited to announce the dates for our RuRo tour in WA this coming September. Both myself and Rachael Johns will be touring for a week and we will have both our new books, The Sunnyvale Girls and Outback Ghost with us. (They are released in October.)   We start off in Albany on
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Simmering Season with Jenn J McLeod

I have another wonderful lady answering my blog questions today, Jenn J McLeod! I met Jenn through the RWA Conferences and so it’s been amazing to see her grow and succeed with her novels. (In April her second book Simmering Season was released.) Now lets find out a bit more about Jenn…. If you could
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