Just Bloomed

Latest Picture Book with stunning
illustrations by Anne Bannock
Published by One Tree House

      



      Seasonal Shots

An inside seasonal shot
fake flowers pretending it's summer

Bit of a sunset the other night

If I'm not writing
I'm in the garden
If I'm not in the garden
I'm reading
If I'm not reading
I'm baking or walking
or knitting
and sometimes even day dreaming

SWEET  NEWSY  SNIPPETS

My poem in Blast Off Magazine, Australia
 August issue. Looks just great.
Also chosen for their new YouTube channel
tiny.cc/schoolmagyoutube

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My poem The Visit
is being used in a brochure on Poetry Day in August
for patients in the Dunedin hospital.
Sweet!

** Great review of Murder most Malicious - A Mancini Mystery on AustCrime**
- used the pen name Kitty Jackson to keep it separate from my children's work-
www.austcrimefiction.org/review/murder-most-malicious-kitty-jackson

Another reader, A Trickle of Water published
by Wendy Pye
as one of their Sunshine Books.

Five quick questions about The Aurora Seeker.

New reader, Mr Mustard's Mailbox was published
by Wendy Pye
as one of their Sunshine Books.

My adult's short story A Long Path was published in Takahe 91.

My short story Second Time Around was placed fourth
in the nationwide Romantic Short Story Competition.
I was particularly chuffed
because I've only ever written one other short story involving romance.

My poem Gleaming the Ground gained third placing
in the recent The Grace of Snowdrops Poetry Competition,
organised by the Dunedin Public Library along with Larnach's Castle.