Farm Life

Life on the farm is endlessly satisfying. It’s often exhausting, always fulfilling and lots of work what with the family and the animals. And, that’s before all the other challenges that come along with floods, drought, fires and everything else that goes along with living on the land, but I truly love it. I love the life and the work, the people and the opportunities that come along each and every day.

 

A Girls Night Out - Bush Style
It's been busy in these parts recently, and well, you know what it's like sometimes? You just need a good night out.
Hope's Road Giveaway
Now it's your turn (I hope) to get a Happy Surprise when the mail delivery arrives at your door or post box or roadside 44 gallon drum.
Where Do You Write?
Book Three is underway, and this is where I was writing today:
Excited... me....
This morning, somewhere in Gippsland, there is a courier driver who thinks they just met the world's maddest woman.
Book Cover - The Girl in the Hard Hat, Loretta Hill
Hi and thank you for agreeing to come to morning tea or ‘smoko’ with me! It’s really very kind of you to consider joining in, as I’m hoping that this is another method by which we can get all our readers to know more about all our authors!
Hope's Road - Preview / Pre-Order coming up on iTunes
Dispatches from the front (well okay, lots of lovely people mentioned :) ) that HOPE'S ROAD is showing up in iTunes Upcoming Releases for Outback Romance at a lovely pre-order cost of $9.99
Merry Christmas and a festive recipe or two ...
In view of Santa's impending arrival next week, no doubt followed by a hoard of relatives (or even just one or two) for lunch or tea at your place on the BIG day, I thought I'd share two of my most favourite festive season recipes which have seen me through the last couple of Christmas days in great style. They also might help you!
The Best of 2012 - Bella's Run on iTunes
I am VERY excited (and lets just say that is the understatement of 2012) to say that BELLA'S RUN has been named by the editors at iBookstore as one of the "Best of 2012" for romance.
The Billy's Boiling with Deborah O'Brien
Hi and thank you for agreeing to come to morning tea or ‘smoko’ with me! It’s really very kind of you to consider joining in, as I’m hoping that this is another method by which we can get all our readers to know more about all our authors! This time it's Deborah O'Brien joining me.
The Background - Is A BUSH CHRISTMAS True?
To wake up last weekend and see my novella, A BUSH CHRISTMAS sitting in the top ten books to be downloaded on iTunes was humbling. I swear I nearly fell off my chair in a dead faint. Then my publisher texted me Sunday morning to say we’d made it to No. 2.
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