2025 is the Centenary Year for Society of Women Writers NSW of whom I have been a member for a mere eight years. Celebrations culminated with a lunch in the … Continue reading Celebrating 100 Years: Society of Women Writers NSW
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Exploring Louisa’s Legacy Through Fiction
My inspiration for how Louisa looked is one of her real sisters. Louisa had six of them: Julia, Martha Elizabeth "Pattie", Mary Augusta, Lucy Ann, Mercy, and Laura. Once Louisa … Continue reading Exploring Louisa’s Legacy Through Fiction
His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper
At yesterday's monthly meeting of my writers' group I offered a few hundred words from the manuscript I am still slaving over. I had my heroine walking up the gangplank … Continue reading His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper