by Melanie Page I write for pleasure… so am I a professional? It is one of those esoteric questions (aka how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?). Should I consider myself a professional writer, or am I an amateur? Amateur is easy – they don’t get paid, and they do itContinue reading “Just call me Sisyphus”
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Jenn J’s Reader Promise
I’m Jenn J McLeod, a nomadic novelist, and since 2014, home for has been a purple and white caravan I call Myrtle the Turtle. Downsizing my life into a 25 foot van meant getting rid of my huge book case and all my books (*insert sad face*). On the plus side, I’m discovering towns toContinue reading “Jenn J’s Reader Promise”
A Camping we would go!
by MC D’Alton Well it would seem the Gods of adventure take their job incredibly serious, especially when it comes to making my life just that wee bit more interesting. We will skip the many, many, MANY, times they have injected excitement, unexpected happenings and just plain out-there ‘WOW’s’ into my life, and get rightContinue reading “A Camping we would go!”
Coffee with the Baybz
By Melanie Page ‘The time has come’, the walrus said To talk of many things…. And talk we did. The BookBaybz all met up today for one of our working/ chatting/ planning gab-fests (oops, extremely productive, coffee-fuelled, brainstorming sessions). We had two ring-ins, fellow writers from the local area. And it was a salutary lessonContinue reading “Coffee with the Baybz”
Mad, Bad and Dangerous
Mad, bad and dangerous to know – Byron, the ultimate regency rake. George Gordon, Lord Byron died in 1824, but he lives on, not only in his poetry and as a national hero of the Greek War of Independence, but as an inspiration and a ‘type’ in romantic fiction, particularly regency romances.
Meet Michelle!
By MC Dalton Hello, goeie dag, dumela, sawubona, g’day mate! My name is Michelle, but as you can see I write under a pen name. Born in South Africa, my husband, our almost five-year-old triplet boys, and I left our home in 2010 for a safer, better future here in Australia. I am a nurse,Continue reading “Meet Michelle!”
A Few of my Favourite Things…
By MC Dalton I’ve never been the type of person who could honestly say, I had a ‘favourite’, favourite. What I mean by this is, there are too many things to like to simply only like the one thing – make sense? Don’t worry if I don’t, I rarely do, hehe. But, if I wereContinue reading “A Few of my Favourite Things…”
Happy Birthday Mr Shakespeare
By Melanie Page Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shallContinue reading “Happy Birthday Mr Shakespeare”
Hi, my name is Melanie and I’m a readaholic
Actually, these days, reading is something of a treat. I seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole into a strange, hand-wringing, hair-pulling, wine-sculling, chocolate-scoffing world of writing and editing. There I was, blithely going about my own business when a series of events, much like a large and well-dressed white rabbit scurrying past, precipitatedContinue reading “Hi, my name is Melanie and I’m a readaholic”
