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  • Blog,  Books,  Writing

    Gin & Tonic Update #3

    / February 21, 2019 / 0 Comments

    The third update on the writing of crime fiction novel Gin & Tonic

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  • Blog,  Books,  Writing

    An update on Gin & Tonic

    / January 24, 2019 / 0 Comments

    For those of you who are new and who may not be aware, I am writing a crime novel. This should not really surprise anyone. I love reading crime fiction. But I started…

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  • KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre
    Blog,  Writing

    I hit 10,000 words!

    / June 4, 2018 / 0 Comments

    I suppose I gave it away in the title but oh my God! 10,000 words! Here’s what happened on each day. Day 5 was the Friday. Nothing got done on Friday. I was…

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  • Katherine Susannah Pritchard and her typewriter (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers

    / June 1, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Day 4 already. Well, nothing was going to happen on Day 1 given how tired and jetlagged I was. Today, most of the day was pretty boring. I had not slept well the…

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  • KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 2: A cat is here!

    / May 30, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Day 2 and I woke up joyful today. Joyful because it was such a wonderful thought that I could write and everyone was going to be mindful of that. That no one would…

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  • The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan
    Book Reviews

    3 amazing Australian authors I read in 2016 and absolutely loved

    / January 9, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I tend to stumble upon my books (matters not if it is work by Sri Lankan or Australian authors) and I started young. We have a bookcase in our house that spans the…

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  • Maudiegirl and the von Bloss Kitchen by Carl Muller
    Book Reviews

    Maudiegirl and the von Bloss Kitchen by Carl Muller

    / January 5, 2017 / 0 Comments

    The first author I read this year is not an Australian female writer but a Sri Lankan male one.  It was Carl Muller and his book Maudiegirl and the von Bloss Kitchen. I…

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  • Cover of the book Portable curiosities by Julie Koh
    Book Reviews

    The best Australian books that 7 Australian writers loved in 2016

    / January 2, 2017 / 1 Comment

    I wanted to write about some of the best books by other Australian writers that I had read and been blown away by during 2016. And then I thought – why not ask…

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  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Literary Journalism

    Watch “Emily Paull in conversation with Liz Byrski” on YouTube

    / July 27, 2016 / 0 Comments

    A week or so ago, I filmed this video for Westbooks of their Q & A session with author Liz Byrski. Find out about her latest book The Woman Next Door and her…

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  • 365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr
    Competitions,  Events,  Work Opportunity,  Writing

    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    / July 1, 2016 / 5 Comments

    I decided to put this calendar for the month of June together on a whim. And then people loved it. So this is the monster list of everything even remotely writerly and literary…

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