Confession: My wife and I don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day. Sometimes we’ll go out for lunch or dinner, or maybe buy a card for each other, but mostly, we just get up in the morning and say “Happy Valentine’s Day” and that’s it. That’s not to say my wife and I aren’t romantics – we […]
Audiobook Update
Quick one this week with an update on my audiobook narrating journey. So far, I’ve taken a couple of short courses on audiobook narration and watched a TONNE of youtube videos from voice actors and narrators for tips and tricks. Then, as a practice run, I recorded and edited a short, short story I wrote […]
Driving Lessons
I turn 45 this year. It’s weird to even think about that age. I feel like it’s sort of an in-between age – not quite middle-aged (although technically it’s smack bang in the middle of a normal life expectancy for someone like me), not quite young anymore. I’m old enough to be going grey and […]
Australia Day
Why I no longer celebrate it. I was going to write a different post this week, but I watched a documentary that made me change my mind. This is something I’ve done for the last few years (or not done, really), without making a big deal of it, but I feel like now is the […]
I’m about to embark on a very cool and probably stupid adventure
I always try to get a little out of my comfort zone each year with either my writing (trying new genres or tropes, writing shorter or longer for example), my business (learning how to format paperback books myself, for example, or how to run ads on Facebook and Amazon), or my personal life (re-learning the […]