Welcome to Jenn J McLeod. A city girl by birth, she left Sydney and a corporate role in communications and PR and moved to a small coastal town in 2004 with plans to soak up a little café culture and concentrate on writing and a new life in the country. Jenn's debut novel, A House For All Seasons [...]
Greg Barron writes ripping thrillers and his latest Savage Tide has all the hallmarks of equalling last years super sucessful Rotten Gods. Greg is touring extensively over the next four months so do check out his website and pop along to one of his talks. I'm sure you will be entertained. Today Greg blogs about [...]
Like most children I grew up with fairy tales, glistening narratives of maidens and princes, kindly god-mothers, evil step-sisters, nasty witches and trails of breadcrumbs. The versions that my mother shared with me were however, of the twentieth century kind. I doubt I would have received such enjoyment should I have been told the originals. The Grimm [...]
Welcome to Alice Greenup, debut author of the memoir, Educating Alice and QLD cattle farmer. I recently met and interviewed Alice at Moree On A Plate, our local food and wine festival. Her memoir joins the burgeoning list of rural non-fiction, a genre which is enjoying new interest on the back of rural fiction. Alice's story, city [...]
As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War next year and then the centenary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in 2015 it is really stirring to see such massive turnouts for services across Australia. In my own part of the world Anzac Day is the most important day in our [...]
I love January... well, I should clarify that statement. I love January minus heatwaves and drought conditions, I usually love January minus floods (although after three years of January flooding I should be use to that too!) and windstorms thanks to ex-tropical cyclones. January is 'brain rest' time for me when I can stop creating [...]
Sara Foster joins me today from W.A. to discuss her latest release SHALLOW BREATH. There is nothing quite like sinking your teeth into a well researched novel and you can be assurred that with Sara's latest offering the reader will be rewarded with a quality work of fiction interwoven with fact. Here Sara talks about digging [...]
Well I'm back at my desk - sort of. After 4.5 weeks touring and the odd Absolution Creek event since we're at the pointy end of the year on-property with cattle sales and harvest happening. Today, friend, News Ltd journo and soon-to-be Australian Women's Weekly star Caroline Overington talks about her new book. 'Sisters of [...]
It's lucky I'm use to driving. With 2.5 weeks of touring already behind me, 3600 kms (give or take a few ks) takes in a whole lot of country. From the vast open spaces of western QLD to the south of the state through to NSW and the waterways of the beautiful midnorth coast, I [...]