"I grew up on a cattle property of 47,000 acres in Central Queensland, Australia. As a child I loved horses, books and the bush. Not a lot has changed although I have also grown to appreciate the finer things in life, especially eating out. My husband and I have a smaller cattle and grain farm close to where I grew up. We have adult two children. My married daughter lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, with her husband. After spending seven months overseas, our son has established a metal engineering business in our shed.
I published a historical romance set locally when I was in my early twenties. I started another book after that but having a family interrupted the flow and I didn't seriously get back to writing until many years later.
I finally sold an historical novel, The Cornstalk, and a few months later the same publisher purchased its sequel, A Hidden Legacy. The good news kept coming, with my short story Coming Home selected for inclusion in one of the RWA's Little Gems anthologies. The same story and my poem, Drought, was recently printed in Idiom 23, the Bauhinia Literary Awards magazine.My latest offering, Breakaway Creek, is a rural romance written with a dual timeline. It was published recently by Clan Destine Press. I am a member of the Romance Writers of Australia and I also belong to the Central Highlands Writers' Group which meets monthly. We've published three books of short stories, Boots At The Door, A Taste Of Fear and Pot Luck: Stories of the Central Highlands. I've had several fiction and non-fiction stories and a couple of poems included in these anthologies.
In 2008 I helped compile a book to commemorate my home town's 125th anniversary. I'm also one of a group of volunteers who once a month put together a newsletter of the happenings around our town.
In between farm duties, volunteer work and writing, I also work part-time at the local library - a writer's dream job!"
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