Category Archives: Blog
It’s been a while since I moved into my new home, and I’m very happy with it. In fact, owning my own place has woken up the nesting instinct in me so much that I’ve even started to give serious thought to trying to find a date. I haven’t done anything on that front yet… {read more}
Today is my mother’s birthday, so of course I made her a cake. It took hours of work, but the results were so spectacular I just have to share them. So here it is from the outside, looking OK but nothing that special: But once it was cut, all was revealed. And… {read more}
Life is all about beginnings and endings. Very soon I shall be facing an important new beginning: next week I’m going to move into my new home, and finally become fully independent. It’s a big step for anyone to make; I’ve heard it called one of the most stressful events of a person’s life, and… {read more}
As some people already know, I generally don’t read reviews of my work. There are a few reasons for that. One is that they’re a distracting influence when I’m writing (back in the day, little snippets of reviews used to pop into my head while I was trying to work). Another is that, since they’re… {read more}
So Book Week is over, and the last event was a good one. Now I can relax and get on with some other pressing matters, such as a certain project I’ve just become involved with (full description of that to come). I’m also expecting the manuscript for book six, The Shadow’s Heart, to arrive next… {read more}
Book Week, an event run by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, is one of the highlights of my year. It means a week of visiting schools to do talks and workshops, mixing with other authors, and finding out who won the Book of the Year awards. It’s hard work, but it’s a lot of… {read more}
Long-time readers may recall the story I sometimes tell about how I got the idea for The Dark Griffin. But for those who never heard it, or who’ve forgotten, here is is again: Some years ago I went on a holiday to Tasmania – a place I’d always wanted to go. It’s a beautiful… {read more}
Today I did something very unusual – by my standards, anyway. I went to the maul this afternoon to pick something up from the bookshop. I was in a hurry, so I ran up the escalators and slipped between two guys who were in the way. Unfortunately, the cable from my headphones caught on a… {read more}
The word “gibberish” is derived from an alchemist by the name of Geber, who wrote all his findings down in a nonsense language only he understood. That language was subsequently named “Geberish”. I love trivia. Meanwhile the third trilogy of the griffin series, which is titled The Southern Star, will be going to acquisitions sometime… {read more}
Tonight I watched the Lone Ranger movie. Ignore the critics – it’s a very entertaining movie; at least as good as the first Pirates of the Caribbean, and fun to watch for the same reasons. ~KJT, now 150 pages into book fourteen and awaiting the installation of her kitchen
