Blog Posts
How DGoM Was Born
Image and caption is from the Guardian Article: This cave in the Juukan Gorge, dubbed Juukan 2, was destroyed in a mining blast on Sunday. Consent was given through outdated Aboriginal heritage laws drafted in 1972. Photograph: The Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura...
Foundling Available For Pre-Order
FoundlingDragon Guardians of Magic Book 1AVAILABLE ON 23 SEPTEMBER 2021In an era where dragons are myth and magic is fading, an orphan girl discovers the last remaining dragon egg in the entire world… All Peri’s ever concerned herself with was staying awake during...
The Thief and The Dragon
I've just sent off my newsletter story to the editor! It was supposed to be a short story of about 5k words, but it grew into a huge novella of almost 25k... Anyway, I enjoyed writing it and I hope you will enjoy reading it, dear reader. It's set a few weeks after the...
DGoM: Foundling is finished!
I finished Foundling last Friday. Such a relief to write the last word, though I know it's not quite done yet. It still needs to be edited, but as far as the story goes, I think I'm done! We celebrated with some profiteroles 🙂 I drafted out the 2nd book--still no...
Chara names in Foundling
I initially wanted Peri to be called Peony. But Peony is such a sweet name, and Peri isn't a very sweet person. I think she'd turn her nose up at Peony. Peri is also the name of girl in a book that I liked as a kid. I don't remember the name of the book, but she was...
Writing Distractions
I’m almost done with Foundling, Dragon Guardians of Magic. But writing has been hard these past few weeks. We have been trying to relocate to another country (during a global pandemic!) and there have been several significant setbacks. It’s been stressful, but...
Hello!
It's difficult starting something new. When I first started writing, I knew my first book wouldn't be great, so I went ahead and wrote it anyway, just to get it out of the way. Don't worry, it's not Foundling, it's a book that won't ever see the light of day. I...