Hey! It's been a while, so I thought I'd pop in and post a little something about what's been going on this month. 😊 But firstly, how are you? Hope this month has treated you well. I've been very busy during April.  The month started with a long weekend. It was an excelle…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! A new year means a new Goodreads Reading Challenge: So, this is when I say: I want to read 100 books this year. 😁 I also usually give myself mini-challenges, but this year I'm not going to do that.  During 2023 I want to read any novel, short story, novella or nov…

Hey! How are you today? What have you been up to? It's Friday, so I'm looking forward to this afternoon so we can start the weekend. 😍 As you probably already know, I always like to take a few weeks off between writing projects. But this time, I did things a bit differently. I…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! A new year means a new Goodreads Reading Challenge: Last year I changed my usual 100-book reading target to 50 because I was going to concentrate on longer books (and didn't), but still reached 100.  So, this year I'm going back to my annual goal of 100 books .  …

Hey! What did you do this week? I celebrated finishing an edit by getting stuck into a Book Purge. As I've mentioned many times here and on Twitter, during pre-pandemic times hubby and I used to go for many thrift store adventures. During those adventures I picked up a LOT of books. …

Earlier this year, when I posted my Reading Goals for 2021 , I talked about changing my usual 100-book target to 50. The main reason I made this change was because I wanted to read a bunch of longer books. But now, after my first month of reading, I've also decided to make another cha…

Hey!  How are you today? Can you believe the first month of 2021 is almost over? Yikes. 😳 So, what have you been up to?  As I mentioned a few weeks ago , I started the year with edits and interviews. Then, without consciously planning to, I ended up taking a bit of a break during the re…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!   The start of a new year means a new Goodreads Reading Challenge... I usually set my annual goal as 100 books, but this year, I've decided to make my 2021 Reading Challenge  50 books . The main reason is because I have several longer books I'd li…

Hi, how are you today? What's new in your part of the world? Hope you're all staying safe. Can you believe another month is almost over? As if living through a pandemic isn't fucked up enough, this week has added more disgraceful acts of violence by racist assholes to t…

Hey! How are you today? What's new with you? Did you have a nice week? Things in Sydney are weird, but we're good. As I mentioned last week, most states in Australia seem to be in a real hurry to open up and pretend everything's normal. Never mind the pandemic. As long …

Hey! How are you today? How's this week treating you? The world is still insane, so I know it's weird to ask. But still, it's nice to check in. To make sure we're all okay. So, Australia is still on lockdown and is going to stay that way for another four weeks. Th…

Hi there! How are you coping with everything this week? Are things getting better? Personally, I go from feeling great and productive and having a great time hanging around the house with hubby, to feeling the weight of impending doom consuming my brain. That's not a good feeling…

Hey! How's everyone doing this week?  I know that's a hard question to answer when the world is suffering through this horrid pandemic and we're all on some sort of lockdown... but, I hope you're all staying safe and doing wonderful things at home. In NSW, all n…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!   A new year means a new Goodreads Reading Challenge... That's right. I'm setting my usual 100 Books Reading Challenge. These are the mini-challenges I like to squeeze into the overall challenge: Find a good balance between reading books for …

That's right. After a very productive week , this one slowed down a bit. I still got several things done, but it didn't include finalising two stories, LOL. This week, my main goal was to finish reading IT . And to be honest with you, I tried to squeeze in some brainstormin…

Hey, how are you today? It's been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I might talk about the recent change in my reading habits. For the first time in years, I don't have any ARCs or review books left on my TBR pile. This might not sound like a big thing bu…

That's right.  As a result of my (totally) cluttered brain, this month has been one big ball of restless-minded energy. Yet, I've still managed to concentrate long enough to read quite a bit and haven't stopped thinking about my future WIPs. But first, how has this …

That's right. After five weeks of stop-start on this demonic WIP, it's finally done. Yay. It feels really good to get this story completely out of my head because I've been carrying it with me for quite some time. And the way I tackled this draft was so different to …

Well, the weather in Sydney really sucks at the moment. I mean, summer isn't even over yet but this past week the temperature has dropped dramatically and it's rained continuously. Ugh. Still , I didn't let it get to me. Much. LOL. I can take a few days of rain, but mor…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!   2019 is here and that means setting a new Reading Challenge over at Goodreads: I've once again set myself the goal of reading 100 books . This total will include novels, novellas, short story collections/anthologies, comic books, poems, etc. read on di…