It’s been a while (too long), so I thought I’d share a few things that have happened recently!

First, my short story “Untitled” was long-listed in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Furious Fiction competition! This is a competition I have won previously, so to get mentioned again is an honor. Also, unfortunately, my title was not actually planned to be untitled, but I always name the story at the end and send it through. Because I was submitting while tired, I neglected to do that and only realized after the bar began loading after hitting submit. A silly mistake and a lesson learned.

Aside from that, tomorrow will mark six months of working for myself as the owner of Anne’s Second Hand Book Shop in Nowra. Time truly flies when you’re having fun and I don’t feel like I’ve worked a day in the past six months! This has also had the subsequent side effect of reading more, A LOT MORE, as I am on my 66th book this year. To put that in perspective, that is six books more than my previous FIVE years of reading. I. Am. Loving. It.

On the writing front, aside from short story competitions (which I am getting more confident with), I am back to working on my novel, The Magician’s Curse. You’ll note I’ve dropped the name of the main character and this comes off the back of a structural decision to follow both Jefferson and Gabriel and since it’s not just Jefferson’s story anymore, I dropped his name. It very much is still his story (after all, he’s the protagonist of future books) but without the focus on him, the title works better as it is. I’m excited about the latest edit, to say the least.

Anyway, my boy has already woken from his nap but know that I’m not dead and writing is still very much a passion and goal of mine! Talk to you all again soon!