Loretta Hill

I’m am very excited to have Loretta Hill on my blog! It’s great to have a fellow WA author, even better to have one that writes the type of book I love. I met Loretta back in 2009, I think it was, at a RWA conference we had in Perth. Out of all the people
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Xmas lights – Outback style

So a couple of our locals came up with a competition to get everyone in the Christmas spirit. A notice went out to everyone, come and join in our Farm Gate Lights Competition. By friday night we gathered under the tree, our five house town now thriving with people. We fired up the barbie, cooked
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More Flood Pics

Here is just a few more photo’s I took while driving around. It’s just amazing to see so much water. Silvie, the boarder collie, checks out the water. This picture is of the driveway to my uncles farm, which we call Kate’s. All the water makes for some nice pitures. On Burngup Road, you can
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Xmas Shopping

This weekend just gone, I went with a friend to Perth where we shopped for 47 kids for our local Christams Tree. We are going down in numbers but for a 5 house country town we still get a massive turnout each year with past and present folks. It’s the 86th Christmas Tree in a
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More writing spaces

My next author has some very amazing writing spaces. (I’m jealous of these authors who get to mix travel and writing.) I’m so excited to show you Tony Park’s work areas. Tony writes about Africa so vividly in his books, you can tell he loves it. African Dawn is his latest book, which is going
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Amazing people

Just a quick blog to do a ‘shout out’ to Cathryn Harris who has won the SA – Nokia Business Innovation Award for 2011. As the Mount Gambier Library manager, I met Cathryn earlier this year when she organised for me to travel to their amazing library to talk about my recent book. It was
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All over for another year.

Yes, it’s all over. Two full days sitting behind this table chatting to people from all over and signing books. Three nights camping in the freezing cold, thank goodness for eletric blankets! And most of all thank goodness for mum who came along to help. Bringing regular hot cuppa’s and watching the stall while I
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RWA Conference

Finally we are back from travelling all around. We visited sunny QLD with an quick stop at the Gold Coast to see Movieworld. A treat for the kids (and us). Only problem was my six year old son begging me to go on the Scooby Doo ride! Heck, I never would have gone if i’d
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Dowerin Field Days

Once again I am heading north to Dowerin. I went two years ago with my first book and had a blast! It was so huge, two days jam packed full of things to see. (Not that I had much of a chance at seeing half of it as I was busy signing books and chatting
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Cover shots

My publisher asked me which photos best captured my setting in The Road Home. Well these are just a few that do… This next one was taken by Shannon Morton, and is from the wheatbelt area. This next photo was sent in by Colleen Goodwill from her Bodalla Station. And the last one was from
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