I see myself as a late bloomer who loves to travel. Not sure how others see me, well, we can never really know, can we? I grew up in the the teeming metropolis of Sydney, although I don't remember it as such, and relocated to the beautiful little city of Hobart in 1995.

Reading has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember, and basically I'll read anything. Early favourites were Pippi Longstocking and Trixie Belden, then I fell for historical romance when I read Anya Seton's Katherine. Jane Austen and the Brontes came next followed swiftly by Simone de Beauvoir who I discovered via Albert Camus. Well written biography and autobiography are always welcome and when travelling I love to read about the place that I happen to be in.

Always a reader, it never occurred to me to write myself but then one day I had an idea that I just couldn't get out of my head. When I blogged about a year of travel a friend said that I should add some romance. And that was the inspiration for my first Wattpad effort, The Battle for Baiardo. I spent a couple of weeks there, volunteering for a cultural association and met some English people looking for a holiday home. There was definitely an undercurrent of tension in the village about who was buying up properties. That was just before the GFC hit and I moved on to Malta. I did subsequently do volunteer work in an art school but that was in Casole d'Elsa in Tuscany and is still going strong.
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  • JoinedSeptember 8, 2013



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Hi seriously neglected followers! Just to let you know Juliet's Journey (which was previously known as The Battle for Baiardo) is free today and tomorrow on Amazon. How else is it different, I hear y...
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