Drama Queens with Love Scenes is a decade old. My tale of two friends who end up in the theatre district of the Afterlife went through eight drafts before Charles River Press initially published it in December 2012. So, on this very important milestone, I thought I'd share ten facts about my first novel. 1. …
Book Review – Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden
I don't usually read Young Adult novels. This book showed up on my socials several times and I browsed, no, I glanced at a bit of information about it. I believed it was a contemporary novel about a rising ballet star who has an accident that changes his life. Well, the last part is correct. …
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Mistaken for a Romance Writer
My assessor said I blended genres. She worked with me on my first novel, and while I liked books, it never dawned on me their genres were so rigid. I had television experience and in the film and TV world, blending and re-inventing genres was normal. When I started promoting myself and my book, Drama …
Book Review -The Moth and Moon by Glenn Quigley
It's hard to write a review that encapsulates how charming this book is. Yes, there's a love story, but that's only part of what this tale explores. The world building is excellent, especially as the entire first chapter sets the scene of a small town from centuries ago about to brave a horrendous storm. All …
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Insomnia. A writer’s friend.
All my life I've been an insomniac. Not the 'lie in bed trying the fall asleep' type. The 'wake up at 3am and can't sleep for hours' kind. It doesn't happen every night, and if the next day is not a work day, that's not a problem. As writers, we know that these night hours …
Nate and Cameron
This blog was published in 2017 to coincide with the release of the paperback featuring both short novellas, Nate and the New Yorker and Nate's Last Tango. Both novellas are also available as ebooks (the first is only 99c). I'm writing this blog several weeks before its release because something has already fascinated me as …
Adding Adult Themes
The second novel in the Actors and Angels Series is not like your usual sequel. This book is called Drama Queens and Adult Themes, and follows Drama Queens with Love Scenes. The idea for the plot of the second book came from the first - I know that's stating the obvious, but bear with me. The …
Exotic locations
I'm lucky. In a world where so many people don't have the means to travel, I'm in the minority. My partner, Warren, and I love discovering new cities and will plan a world trip whenever we have the funds. You see, from Australia, it's cheaper to buy a 'round the world' ticket, which usually takes …
Loving Second Best
This blog was originally posted to promote the NineStar Press re-release of this book. Imagine having the love of your life slip through your fingers. Now imagine that someone has fallen for you but you're not sure if you're ready to love them back. That's the dilemma that Nathan faces in my novella, Nate and …
Slipping between genres.
"You're mixing genres." This wasn't said to me as a negative. It was an observation from an editor when I had the initial draft of my first novel assessed. At the time, I didn't realise this was such a big deal. Cinema had made an art of combining genres for a long time. Surely, literature was equally as experimental. But …
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