My editor, Shel Sweeney from A Worded Life, will have her expert eyes all over Indie Outback this month! Scary and exciting. So close to grant acquittal month. So close to having the plot holes patched, spelling and grammar shining... More
May already! Where did the time go? Indie has found a flow in book two and three now and the strings of the story are tying together. I have been writing at night when little Ms 5 goes to bed-... More
As rookies we had no idea how long books actually took to publish and all the work behind the scenes. Working on our debut novella, Black Cockatoo (Magabala 2018) helped us understand the process and the time things take much... More
Indie is struggling to find her feet in book number 3. This month I jumped between book two and book three to try to make the story flow across all three books and make sure the storyline flowed. A really... More
Tracks of the Missing (Magabala 2021) is a YA suspense thriller based in the outback. Tracks of the Missing was inspired by a mix of things. Carl grew up hearing his local Creation stories or local scary stories. Hakea... More
Back in the swing of things- I’m working casually teaching this year, running a small online business with Carl and we are both writing… as well as, you know, life. The juggle and the struggle are real! I’m plodding along... More
Another busy month of writing the Indie Outback Series thanks to the Arts Council of Australia Funding I received last year. Book two is well underway. It has been a really interesting process: Writing alone without Carl Writing my first... More
We have been busy working on new stories and learning lots about being authors. Here is an update for all our followers and supporters. We continue to work with our editor and writing mentor Shel Sweeney from A Worded Life... More
I have always loved stories. Devouring books… probably escaping reality a bit. Babysitter’s Club, Goosebumps, Obernewtyn Chronicals, Tomorrow When the War Began, Taronga, The Magic Faraway Tree, Animorphs… I can remember in year 7 sitting at the computer typing away... More