Feature image “Sabre Tooth Tigers eating Daffodils” by andrew_j_w CC BY-SA 2.0 Whenever I write about my experiences with mental health people tell me how brave I am for doing it. I’ll let you all in on a secret though, whenever I talk about a rough patch it is always after I have gotten through it and am out the other side. When…
The following story appears in Ghost Bus – Tales from Wellington’s Dark Side. I’m putting it up here so I can have a freebie to give away to lure more unsuspecting victims (I mean readers) and also to showcase an awesome illustration done by the very talented Shaun Garea. Details on where to get all the things at the end…
I am in the process of revamping this website to make it more user friendly, but in the meantime I’m pinning this post for those of you wanting to get your hands on my books. I’m really thrilled with the way Ghost Bus turned out and even more thrilled so many of you are enjoying it. Below are the details…
Feature image by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for a while but always end up agonising over whether it’s the right time. There are so many voices that need to be given the space to be heard right now – more and more every day it seems. So it feels selfish to try to…
You thought the Space X launch was exciting? Well today is the e-launch of Ghost Bus – Tales from Wellington’s Dark Side!
Tomorrow I will be publishing my second book
Before our entire country was (quite rightfully) sent to our room, I was already seeing a bunch of messages from historians in writers’ forums asking people to write about the pandemic. It was a moment in history we were living through and we should be documenting it, they said. I thought about it, I really did. I write non-fiction, I…
This is a blog I have been putting off writing for a while. It’s about letting go, but I have to keep reminding myself that it’s not about giving up. We’ve talked about this for a while but it wasn’t until the last time we took the boat away that we officially made the call. We’re putting Wildflower up for…
This blog is all out of order. It’s not the one I was planning to share but events have overtaken things. Sailors may want to give it a wide berth too (see what I did there?) as it is about the opposite of water, it’s about *shudder* being a dirt dweller. Our home About three years ago Paddy and I…
The yachtie circle of life. So here I am on holiday, finally getting the chance to finish writing up the blog I started last time we went on holiday. If that isn’t a wake up call to take more time to tell life to get bent and do more writing, I don’t know what is! (Of course I say that…