Tomorrow the first of my podcast series, The DownUnder Mystery Club, launches. You can find the trailer (and tomorrow the first episode) by going to the podcast tab on the menu at the top of this page. The podcast traces echoes of real Aussie mysteries into fiction. Hopefully you’ll learn about some intriguing Aussie mysteries…
Australia
In-flight; the long way home
When this posts, I will be somewhere between Darwin and Canberra, on my way home from the annual RWA conference. I don’t think people realise how big Australia is (including some Aussies). To get home I need to take two flights. The first leg is Darwin to Sydney, the second a short jump to Canberra,…
Conference week
This Thursday I will be travelling to Darwin, Northern Territory for the Romance Writers of Australia annual conference. For a writer, going to conference means immersing yourself in the writing world for a few days – something we don’t get to do often as writing is a rather solitary endeavour. It is wonderful to be…
My link to Mary Poppins…
is that I was born in the same town as P.L. Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff in 1899) – the author of Mary Poppins. Yes, she was Australian! She moved to England at the age of 24. I learnt of this when I was a teenager and was thrilled that she also came from my…
Why Australian settings make the best mysteries
Australia is basically a mystery novel waiting to happen. We’re a country where people casually say things like, “Watch out for drop bears,” and tourists can’t always tell if we’re joking. Half our wildlife looks like it was designed by a horror writer and entire towns can exist several hours from the nearest decent coffee…