We travelled through South Australia’s outback to see Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre holding water. Closed tracks changed the journey from bus to light aircraft, revealing floodwater, pelican colonies, donger accommodation, Coober Pedy’s underground rooms, and the strange beauty of a desert briefly transformed by Queensland rain.
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Why choose an adult cat over a kitten? For me, personality matters more than cuteness. Sharkey and Levi arrived as shelter cats, became family, and quietly accompanied the writing of SEETHINGS—sleeping on my desk, squeezing behind me on my chair, and softening the darker places explored in my fiction.
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Promoting an independently published novel involves far more than posting on social media. An author’s website provides the stable centre: a controlled space where useful articles, topic clusters and internal links help search engines understand the work, attract suitable readers and quietly guide them towards discovering—and ultimately buying—the books themselves.
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Can WordPress help fiction authors find readers and sell books? A website offers a permanent home for excerpts, ideas and the themes behind a novel. But publishing alone is not enough. Authors must create inviting pathways that turn passing visitors into curious readers—and, eventually, loyal ones who return again.
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Margo has collected feathers since childhood, rescuing each one she finds and carrying it home for safekeeping. Watching her reveals how much a simple habit can tell us about someone. Writers collect things too: gestures, expressions and peculiar behaviours that may one day give fictional characters their own convincing lives.
Orphaned Feathers. A Strange Collection Obsession of 60+ Years (or Healthy Hobby?) Read More »
Stephen King’s Fairy Tale delivers familiar darkness, hidden worlds and ordinary people confronting extraordinary evil. But is it King at his best? This review explores the novel’s strongest elements, what major critics said, and why readers drawn to monsters hiding inside human beings may also enjoy SEETHINGS.
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Some people run from thunderstorms. I reach for my camera. Storms do not pretend to be harmless, and perhaps that is their appeal. They expose pressure, darkness and hidden danger. In SEETHINGS, lightning becomes more than weather. It reveals what happens when the storm is already inside someone.
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I’m afraid of heights, so when my yacht’s masthead light failed, I sent my boastful mate Graham up instead—at least in fiction. Climbing a mast takes skill, nerve and trust, especially when every movement below becomes a sweeping arc above. That’s why yachties should never underestimate the risk involved.
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A nyctophile is someone drawn to night, darkness, and the freedom that arrives after sunset. But this is not just a definition. It is about feeling calmer, clearer, and more honest when the world goes quiet — when the careful daytime voice fades and the private self begins to speak.
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Back to the renovation dust, tools, timber and half-finished kitchen plans. After a brief break, the house project resumes with wiring, wall removal, ceiling work, sink hunting and a visit from Alex, whose wooden sword briefly steals attention from the chaos of rebuilding a home one messy stage at a time.
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