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Well, winter has well and truly arrived here in Sydney, and I’m trying to take every opportunity possible to escape to my house in Mudgee where we can enjoy the country air as well as an actual fireplace. It’s been almost a full year since we bought the house, and sometimes I have to stop and remind myself just how much renovating we’ve managed to achieve in that time. Of all the projects on the house, redoing the living/dining area was probably the biggest – and also the most hilarious. I realise I haven’t shared many photos of what we’ve been up to, so, instead of book updates, today I though I’d share some progress shots from our house!
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It’s nearly here! On September 10th, Great Sexpectations, the third book in the Laura the Explorer series, is going to be published!
Okay, so five months might not seem very ‘near’ to many readers but trust me when I say that as the author, that date seems quite terrifyingly close! Especially because the book is not even finished yet!
But there is one thing that is finished, and that’s the final cover design, which I total LOVE:
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In case you missed this from my recent emails / social media, the manuscript I've been working on all year, Blackmailing Ava Darling, got into Queensland Writers Center's Publishable competition! The program, which took place from July – October, is now complete, so I thought I’d put down my thoughts on the experience as someone who made it into the top 10 and got to do the whole program.
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Spring has arrived and once again I’m faced with the uncomfortable truth that we are well and truly into the second half of this year and a lot of my 2021 writing goals are most likely not going to happen. But that’s okay. I’m currently reading a fantastic book called Trivial Grievances by Bridie Jabour, and I do like her observation that life for us (‘us’ being people in our 30s) seems to boil down to an incessant need to be achieving things. Always, we must be achieving. Whether it’s achieving a promotion or a pay rise, cooking something on-trend and delicious, reading X many new books this month, spring cleaning the house or organising the spice rack, or, yes, writing the next book. But it’s okay not to achieve anything. Sometimes it’s perfectly fine to just laze around on the floor playing with your dog all day, or just veg out in front of the tv binge-watching shows. The only thing we really should be achieving is enjoying whatever it is we are currently doing.
That being said, though I may be falling short on my over-ambitious new-years resolutions, my readers might be happy to know that I haven’t spent the whole year lolling around on the floor playing with my dog or binge watching tv (at least, not all of it). So, here’s a quick roundup of what is happening with each of my novels-in-progress:
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update about what I’m working on. I hope (assume?) I wasn’t alone when the end of 2020 came around and I looked back on the year and concluded that I hadn't achieved anything new. (Although I published Eat Pray Shag in May, that was already in the works before Covid-19 hit and productivity went up in smoke).
I’ve been finding it really hard to stay focussed on any one writing project for an extended period of time. I don’t know if the problem is my fragmenting concentration, newfound addiction to checking the news, or simply general lack of motivation caused by pandemic anxiety (possibly all three?). In any case, I’m slowly starting to make new roads with the projects that are important to me, so here’s an update on where each of my upcoming works are at:
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