Wednesday Wanderings The Dog Blog: Jack the kelpie & Clancy of the Overflow This post was first published on NicoleAlexander.com.au There I was. Clancy of the overflow (With apologies to Banjo Patterson)… heading towards the yards… So Jack raced to wheel them—he was running on the wing, where the best and boldest kelpies take their…
This week’s spotlight is shining on Kayte Nunn and we’re showcasing Rose’s Vintage … Read an excerpt below. Kayte Nunn is a freelance book, magazine and web editor and writer with more than 20 years’ publishing experience and is the former editor of Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine. She is also a mother to two girls…
This week the golden spotlight is on Kaye Dobbie and we’re showcasing Colours of Gold Read an excerpt below. I currently juggle my writing with sharing an old house and big garden with my husband, as well as far too many animals. Sometimes writing anything is a struggle but I keep trying because I love…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors Helene Young at the Outback Writers Festival I headed west to Winton last week to attend the Outback Writers Festival, which involved a one hour flight from Bundaberg to Brisbane, a two hour flight from Brisbane to Longreach, via Barcaldine, and then a two hour drive. It was lovely to see…
Rural romance author Cheryl Adnams talks about reading rural romance with her cousin Peter When I was about eleven years old my cousin left his family in the Northern Territory and came to live with us while he attended high school in Adelaide. Recently I caught up with him at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We…
Our spotlight is on Catherine Evans and we’re showcasing her debut rural romance novel, The Healing Season … Catherine Evans is a city-born throwback to country genes. After completing an Environmental Biology degree, she desperately needed to move to the country. A job in agriculture was the perfect escape. After spending eighteen years in agricultural…
Friday Favourites - with Nicole Alexander From the Station archives: The homestead my great-grandfather built in the 1890s. … First published by NICOLE ALEXANDER on JULY 2, 2015 on NicoleAlexander.com.au When my great-grandfather moved westward from the New England north-west region of Inverell in the early 1890s to our current property he built a homestead on one of two separate…
Congratulations Jennifer Scoullar on the release of Journey’s End Read an excerpt below and leave a comment for Jennifer to be in the draw for the giveaway - a paperback copy of Journey’s End GIVEAWAY NOW ENDED (Giveaway open to Australian postal addressees only. Giveaway ends midnight AEST Thursday 16 June 2016.) Sometimes a tree…
This week the spotlight is shining on Barbara Hannay and we’re showcasing Moonlight Plains Read an excerpt below. Barbara Hannay is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than forty novels published in twenty-six languages worldwide. She lives in tropical North Queensland with her husband. “I have always loved writing. Even before I could read or…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors When Getting There Is Half The Fun by Cathryn Hein As many of you know, I was born and bred in South Australia’s lush lower south-east. It’s glorious country, rich and fertile and blessed with an overabundance of natural assets. My other half though, is from country north Queensland, and…