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30Jan
ANOTHER WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE WRITER

Good morning Dear Reader,

Today is an auspicious day.  <insert trumpet fanfare here>.

I decided this year it was time to take the next step in my writing career. Today is the official launch day for my Patreon page, to help fund my writing and enable me to create even better things for you.

During 2018, I will be sharing my journey as I write ‘Aunt Enid’  – a septuagenarian who loves playing bingo and fusses over her garden gnomes.  – and then return to complete ‘The Department of Curiosities’.

Find out more in my intro video or feel free to visit my Patreon pagefor even more details.

Come take a look. Say hello. Hang a while. Share my writing journey.

Become a Patron!
 

If you can’t afford to support me financially,  perhaps consider signing up for my monthly newsletter, Tea & Tidings (due out first week of each month), or commenting on my blog posts here.

And feel free to help me promote my Patreon page, either by sharing my page on social media, in your blogs.

 
30Jan
CURRENT WORK-IN-PROGRESS – THE AUNT ENID MYSTERIES
Good morning everyone.
Now we have all settled into the new year, I can announce my current work-in-progress is a modern fantasy set in Adelaide.
This was an unexpected detour but is proving to be a pleasant one.
‘Aunt Enid: Protector Extraordinaire’ is a new genre for me – a cosy paranormal mystery (I found out this was a thing after I started writing…)
Blurb:
‘Daemons, fairies, magic: it’s all real.
The Otherworld is bleeding through the cracks in its shell.
And Adelaide is ground zero.
Something is coming. Something dark – trading souls for passage. And only one person stands between the Dark and the fate of the world.
Aunt Enid is just your average seventy-something year old. She loves to cook, is a regular at bingo and spends hours in her garden, talking to her arm of garden gnomes and fussing over the colour of her hydrangeas…

When people start disappearing, her great niece, Sally, is drawn into a secret world and soon discovers her great aunt is a Protector Extraordinaire.’
Then I am back to work on a new steampunk adventure series, ‘The Department of Curiosities’ – a steampunk tale of adventure, a heroine, mad scientists, traitors and secrets.
All for the good of the Empire.
A new information page on The Aunt Enid mysteries has been added to my webpage. This will be a duology, and the first of four books in The Otherworlds fantasy series.
5Dec
The Illusioneer & Other Tales

Finally the third book in the Adventures of Viola Stewart series is here!

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It was available for sale at the Tea Tree Gully Christmas Market and at Supanova Adelaide, and is available online at most book stores.

Click here for more information on how to buy books 

“Viola Stewart returns for a third set of adventures.

Viola needs a holiday.
But, even at the beach or on Christmas Eve, there are things afoot. The Grand Tour of Europe starts with the Carnevale di Venezia. A chance meeting leads Viola to Paris, where she is lured into the world of illusionists. Will she finally let go of the past, or will it haunt her forever?

Viola Stewart is back, with both old friends and new. Together, they meet mysterious strangers, ingenious scientists and nefarious anarchists as they pit wits against the Men in Grey’s latest plans of Empire domination.

Seeing is believing… or is it?”
11Mar
Cover Reveal:Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales

The covers for the second journal of The Adventures of Viola Stewart, Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales, was launched on Karen’s website today:

There will be two eBooks: Three More Shorts and Eye of the Beholder
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and the cover for paperback compilation: Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales  COVER Eye of Beholder flipped option 2 SM CENTERED TITLE

The new promotional banner is now live:

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I’ll have more photos for you next Friday as well as my usual post on Sunday.

 
16Nov
Supanova Adelaide

This weekend is Supanova Adelaide. Karen has a booth in The Alley – A32. She will have copies of her book, The Adventures of Viola Stewart #1: Doctor Jack & Other Tales, mugs and badges – and a few octoarm scarves – for sale. Come and say hello.

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