Love and Publishing in the time of Corona
My debut novel, All the Beautiful Liars, was published on 16 March 2020, a day that marked a blogtour that was to end the day before my husband and I were to leave… more
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Never Say Never!
As noted in a 2018 blogpost, I had left Facebook, but now I’m back. It was so difficult to leave Facebook that I swore that once I did, I wouldn’t… more
Coming soon…
But first, let me start the year by wishing Australia well. Here I mean all the good people speaking out, trying their best to preserve as much as they can… more
Tis the Season!
And I have done nothing at all Christmassy, which is fine. But don’t worry, I won’t do anything political either. Anyway, the politics in so many places is not anything… more
Of Friends and Places…
I’m late, but a lot’s been going on, and I confess I’ve been hanging out on Twitter and Instagram, as you can see from the bottom of this page. Another… more
The heat’s been getting to me….
The hum in this heat is fat and languid as it falls on my desk making the ink in my pen run away run away away from the hum in… more
Here´s to Roppotucha´s Creatures!
The last weeks and months have been weighing on me health-wise and heart-wise, with the Muse turning up her nose, but who can blame her with all that´s been going… more
A Toronto/Waidhofen meandering
I´m sitting in the wilds of Waidhofen – that place of John Irving fame when he set free the bears from the Vienna zoo. And so in a weird way… more
Seventy is NOT just a number!
My recent gut reaction to a tweet expressing a sense of not belonging as a writer, be it by birth, nationality, domicile, language, themes, yes, and even cliché usage —I… more