March 12, 2014
An early days excerpt from a novel in progress. The boys were restless all through class. Maybe it was the rocket launch they’d planned down in Tommy Jones’s back paddock. Maybe it was a combination of raging hormones and the moon being in Jupiter. Adam felt just like them. He had to keep dragging his mind […]
February 14, 2014
He realised at once that he had posted his lovingly worded Valentine’s card complete with declarations, and the many joys he would bestow, under the wrong door.
I once heard novel writing described as the writer setting themselves a puzzle or trap from which they must escape. Over the past few months I have been redrafting my novel Sapphire Day, one of several in progress, and am now 30 pages from the end. That makes it sound easy. And yet I only […]