April was full of books, tea, faery tales and some writing… I saw Swan Lake, the ballet, with a sweet friend, then headed north for the Newcastle Book Boyfriend author signing, where I got to hang out with my writer besties, chat to readers and buy books. Writing-wise, I headed up the coast for our Tuesday Writing Club each week – and hit number one on Amazon for an anthology I was in, Third Name’s A Charm.

I went to the T Kingfisher book launch with a friend, and read two of TK’s books plus some other great novels, in my ongoing #bookaweek challenge. (Greek myth retelling Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes, Glass and Feathers by Lissa Sloan, The Seventh Bride and Thornhedge by T Kingfisher, Third Name’s A Charm, and the powerful Women and Children by Tony Birch.) I saw Wicked Little Letters (the only person in the cinema), watched the tv series based on Elle McNicoll’s gorgeous book A Kind of Spark, which she co-wrote the scripts for it’s on ABC iView), and Taylor Swift’s new album came out, and it’s incredible!

I had a wonderful night at the Kate Forsyth and Lorena Carrington book launch with some faery tale friends, to celebrate the release of Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairy Tales (dress code witchy, fae or royal), and a few days later we gathered for the Sydney faery tale ring, where we discussed The Stolen Bairn and the Sidhe, a Scottish story from Sorche Nic Leodhas’s collection Thistle & Thyme: Tales & Legends from Scotland – I’d managed to track down a second-hand copy of the first edition hardcover from 1965 – which was retold by Kate in her new book.

And I caught up with friends for coffee, dinners, and a super-early morning breakfast, alternated Body Combat, Body Pump and Chalene Johnson’s Burn Intervals workouts, did an adrenal fatigue course, saw the cardiologist and am doing okay, started a six-month coaching program with Mel Robbins – and the clocks went back, which is kinda funny given that today, when I’m finally posting this, they went forward again!