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The Selkie

The Selkie A faery tale within the faery tale... From The Swan Maiden: An Australian Faery Tale Once upon a time, there were seven beautiful seal sisters. They loved each other dearly, and lived a happy, peaceful life. They loved swimming in the crystal clear ocean together, playing in the swell with passing dolphins, heading

A Magical New Book…

I’m about to launch a new book! The Swan Maiden is an original Australian faery tale, inspired by the beautiful black swans in my local park, who I’ve so loved watching as they raise their adorable cygnets each year. It’s my first post-Mists fiction, and after six epically-long books in that series, it’s a little scary to

… and Imbolc Wishes…

And to my friends in the north, a magical Imbolc to you, as the Wheel turns from the cold and dark and snow of winter to the first signs of spring. This year Imbolc falls on February 4 – unless you are in Alaska ot Hawaii, where it falls the night of February 4. You

Favourite Books of 2019

2019 was the year I stopped my feast or famine reading style, where I would either ban myself completely from reading in order to get some writing done, or give in and binge read all night, and day, and night again, and get no writing done at all. So I joined the #52booksin52weeks challenge, hoping it would

What Are You Afraid Of?

Face Your Fear Most people say I’m brave – I’ve travelled solo through Brazil, crawled into ancient burial tombs in the dark, broken a publishing contract and returned my advance to go indie, interviewed Guns ’N Roses, Foo Fighters and Metallica, and worked out with Jillian Michaels... But there’s one fear that still cripples me