I want a wife. I still want to keep my husband – I’d just like a wife too. Why? Because I’d like somebody to do the laundry, housework and grocery shopping, have my dinner on the table when I get home at night, keep track of my socks and sympathise that I started having my [...]

I had to for my next book. It was hard work but sacrifices have to be made.  If you have a teenage son and want to get into his good books arrange to visit a luxury car dealership on a Teacher Only day and ask him to do the filming for your research. You will be the [...]

It is –  minus the stretch marks. You spend long months growing it and it gets really uncomfortable at the end when the time comes to birth it. Then you hand it over to the publisher (HarperCollins, in my case) who washes it, dresses it, feeds it and burps it so it looks like an [...]

So I’m rewarding myself with a new bike – a Sarah Ulmer Zero 2. I have been so flat out editing and writing that I haven’t had time to post or do much of anything. I did sign up to Facebook and I’ve met some great people. It’s been cold here in the Waikato, lots [...]

I was looking at my first ever post and saw that I mentioned my husband banned me from bookstores when my first book came out and I promised to explain why…well, this is the story of that…
Bonkers was released on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 and I had agreed to take my then, ten-year-old daughter to [...]

Mine was a pair of TARTAN, BLUE slippers with bobbles on the front that  my husband bought for me when I was living in the UK and trying to cope with my first English winter. The slippers were part of a gift to celebrate our anniversary as boyfriend/girlfriend, the other part was – wait for [...]

Thanks to the fact that I’m editing my next book. I looked in the mirror today and got a fright when I saw the network of red on the whites of my eyes looked worse than the bags hanging under them – I could pack my grocery shopping in them, who needs plastic bags? Have [...]

I haven’t written a post in ages but in my defence there’s been alot happening on the home front recently and I’m busy editing “Knotted” so that it’s ready for the release date (October 1st, 2009). I’m really proud of this book and have been laughing while I edit which is a good sign. It [...]

I was on holiday recently, and guess what I did? Wrote, and wrote, and wrote some more. It was sheeeer bliss! That’s what it’s like to be a writer, a quiet house and a laptop is my idea of heaven. My husband had to go away on business for the entire week, which is a signal [...]

I spoke at the festival held in the Hamilton Gardens on Friday. It was the first time I had been invited and I have to say a big thank you to Jan from Poppies Bookstores for asking me, and all the lovely ladies who turned up to listen. Events like this are the icing on the [...]