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Halfway Through Hiatus

Time to explain my absence...

As some may know, I’ve taken a hiatus from writing and authoring. I hit the wall big time in June. I couldn’t keep simultaneously burning the candle at both ends and somewhere in the middle. As any author will tell you, writing, editing, organizing covers, marketing, and promoting are full-time jobs. One that doesn’t pay that well unless you are a best seller but costs a fortune instead. That…

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It's YOLO with KOBO time again.

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Mischief & Mayhem Jul 7 - Jul 28

Just a quickie update while I'm on holidays.

While the cats away…. I hope you are all happy and healthy. I’ve been relaxing and enjoying some of my other hobbies while on holiday, mainly reading and playing music. Vidal is out on Amazon! So, if you haven’t picked it up yet, go get it now. Read Vidal Next week will be Yolo with the Kobo Newsletter. If you don’t know about this, it promotes all the amazing romance and PNR books you can…

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Mischief & Mayhem Jun 23 - Jul 7

Blog Update: Why I'm taking time off, Vidal Release, and a great romance for you to read.

Winter time blues…. I don’t really have much of an update for you today. In case you missed the announcement on FB, I’m taking the month off writing. It’s been a hard couple of months between chronic pain, stress, and expectations on myself, I made the call that I needed a break. Time to refill the creative cauldron, if you will. So, I’ve been reading. I’m on a Kylie Scott binge right now. I do…

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Mischief & Mayhem May 26 - Jun 9

Fortnightly Mischief & Mayhem update: #OUFA24, #BISM25 and all the regular updates.

Once upon a Fairytale Yesterday was the Once Upon a Fairytale inaugural, and didn’t it deliver! Everything about the event was a hit. The OUFA team pulled together an amazing event for both the readers and authors with no hitches that I’m aware of. I had a great time, and hope to get to do it all again in 2026 at Campbelltown. OUFA was my last signing for 2024. My next will be in Melbourne…

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Mischief & Mayhem May 13 - 26

Latest update: Cyra Release, Cover reveal, and the next book coming your way.

Cyra is here!!! That’s right, book 2 in the Chaos Star Trilogy released on Wednesday. I’m so thrilled with the reception this series has had from readers. Your emotive responses to the characters, the way you’ve reached out to let me know how invested you are means everything to an author. I truly appreciate it. Even when you are telling me Luther is a Douche-canoe. I promise you that Luther is…

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Mischief & Mayhem Apr 29-May 12

A very short update this fortnight, but it comes with a free steampunk story, and some PNR Rom Com for your soul.

Cyra is nearly here. This update will probably be rather short. I took a week off writing because of stress from the day job and something needing to give. Then last week, I ended up sick with a 5 day fever and couldn’t focus for more than five minutes on anything. So, there has been no writing, a little reading and very little of anything else done. I do have Cyra coming out next week. So,…

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Mischief & Mayhem Apr 15-28

I can finally reveal the Cyra cover, if I can stay awake long enough to push send.

Tired, but Grateful for the love and Support. Last weekend was the amazing Newcastle Book Boyfriend Expo. A wonderful amount of great authors all descended on Newcastle City Hall and our wonderful readers followed. It was quite a full on day, but I had a wonderful time seeing fans of my work and chatting with them, and meeting new potential readers. It’s my favourite part of these author event,…

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Mischief & Mayhem Apr 1-14

This fortnight's mischief and mayhem. Heartache, tragedy, words, books, events, and the mystery of work-life balance.

When is so much, too much? It’s been a hell of a Roller Coaster this past fortnight. First of all, a terrible event occurred here in Sydney yesterday. I try not to reflect on the events of the world too much. There is so much devastation, greed, senseless violence and hate toward our fellow earth dwellers, that discussing just one tragedy seems inequitable to everyone else suffering. Still,…

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💥 ATTENTION BOOK DRAGONS💥   Are you ready for it? Over 450 participating authors with over 600 romance books that are waiting for you on Kobo Plus!!! Search for your next Kobo Plus read broken down by category ➜ ➜ https://koboplusromancebinge.com/  All of them ➜ ➜ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/kobo-plus-romance-binge Do you love a deal? So do I! Kobo Plus is a subscription program that offers…

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Mischief & Mayhem Mar 18-31

A week of burning immortality Burning Immortality has been out for a week. Have you read it yet? What do you think of Sebastian’s perspective on things? Has it made you switch your book-boyfriend teams or were you a Sebastian Stan all along? I think I’ve been team Malise since we first met him in Numinous, but the Muse doesn’t care about my preference. I am just the mechanism. CONGRATULATIONS…

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Mischief & Mayhem Mar 3 - 17

Fortnightly Update, coming to you from the Alvoru. Burning Immortality Release & Find Your Next Romantic Escape.

Burning Immortality Release: March 21, 2024 Only 4 more days to go until Burning Immortality comes out. If you are new to me and have no idea about the Hierarch Series, here is a quick summary. Paranormal Dark Romantasy Dark AF – When I say this is a dark and twisted series, I mean it. The monsters own that they are monsters and are not trying to convince anyone they are worth redeeming. From…

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Mischief & Mayhem Feb 19-Mar 3

My fortnightly update. I'm tired and barely functioning. Check out the blog post for more details.

Early Year Burnout I’m barely functioning today, so bare with me. Over the last few weeks, Sundays have become a day where reanimating this corpse has gotten to be a nearly impossible thing to achieve. I’m blaming the fact that my day job has nearly burned me out well ahead of schedule for this year. And isn’t it sad that I’ve reached burnout so regularly over the last seven years that I…

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Mischief & Mayhem Feb 5-18

Fortnightly Update: Writing progress, Vidal on Radish, and 2 great reads for you to check out.

Monsoon Season Thank you to everyone who filled in the poll last update. The consensus was to keep to Sunday updates, so that’s what I’ll do. It’s Monsoon season here in Australia. While that mainly affects those in the northern tropical areas, we still get some great summer storms ending the hot sticky days here in Sydney as well. While I love a good storm, my body is not a fan. Old injuries…

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Mischief & Mayhem Jan 21- Feb 4

Fortnightly Mischief & Mayhem update is live. Check out the book deals to stuff your kindle and everything else I've been up to.

New year means new approaches The first thing I’ll address is some changes to the way I’m doing my updates. I’ve integrated my subscribers list, and am going to trial running my newsletter through my website, rather than using a mail service. That way, all the information is in one place. What that means for my subscribers is that fortnightly, you’ll get notified about my mini-updates (my…

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Mischief & Mayhem Jan7-21

My regular fortnightly blog update is out with an exciting PNR recommendation.

Slow & Steady & all that Jazz I’ve been slow to start this year with other ‘life’ stuff taking up a lot of my brain power. So, I’m going to be honest, not much in the way of writing or reading has been happening this last fortnight. That doesn’t many I haven’t been thinking about scenes, or plans, just that I haven’t had the time to action any of it. I did get my Newsletter out on Friday, and…

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Mischief & Mayhem Dec 25 - Jan7

A new year, new books and an overly optimistic outlook on what I can achieve this year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 has kicked off spectacularly (so far). I hope you all had a wonderful Festive Season, some quality time with family, and some fun with friends and loved ones over the new year. I’m not very big on Christmas, so we had a very relaxed day with my siblings coming over for lunch. That is exactly how I like to spend these big holidays. Relaxing. Importantly, while relaxing, I…