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I share tips and thoughts on writing books, and readings good ones too. You’ll find author updates and trumpet tooting stuff here too. Past news and blogs share copywriting, communications and campaigns worth learning from, community and how we connect, my travel love and random life reflections. It’s kind of like my soap box speeches and journal scribbles are catching up for a cuppa too!
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Pandemic Writing
Writing through isolation There’s nothing like a pandemic to channel story voices and concepts. The writing flood gates have opened. I've spent 8 months blending copywriting projects with creative writing expressions and submitting them to competitions,...
How I rode the corona coaster
Well, that was some Coronacoaster ride I know I'm not alone in the pursuit of finding my balance when the world tilts. It's become quite the focus for so many of us during COVID times. While you’d think a copywriter with her own home-based business wouldn't be...
Storytime online
Old school storytime online: I don’t know about you, but I’ve missed library time, and book reading to small ones. I have some special little folks that I often read to, just to enjoy exploring books with them, or peering around the aisles at bookstores and...
The masked copywriter
Compulsory mask-wearing for Victorian's in COVID times means we are adapting to wearing and cleaning face masks to stay safe. Check out these tips
Lockdown writings
Time to write: While lockdown and restrictions during COVID times have turned life upside down for us all, it’s also brought some reflective writing to my desk. Spending more time with my home-schooling tribe has meant I’m also more in tune with different...
Walking towards words to acknowledge our traditional owners
From little things, big things grow Last year my family and I took a road trip, a pilgrimage. We had some unfinished outback business to attend to. There was sacred ground to stand on in the birthplace of aboriginal land rights. We dragged our teen and tween...
Help and hope rises from Australia’s bushfire ashes
This was the summer that felled us – bush, beach, communities, campers, firefighters, families. We swallow smoke and worry. The loss of land, loved ones and livelihoods sits heavy in our hearts. We wring our hands as homes, hamlets, towns and roads are...
What’s in your Go Bag this fire season?
Check out our family's Go Bag Given 2020's devastating fire impacts, it's worth sharing through my blog too as it's never too late to review your plans. What's your Go Bag look like? Why should you bother? Where do you start? Reasonable questions - so here’s some...
52 stories of kindness
I've recently appeared in the pages of a book I didn't write Rather, it was a book written about me, and 51 fabulous other humans who have visions to make a difference in the lives of others I'm pretty humbled by that. These people truly make a difference. Humbled...
CopyCon tips and takeaways for not for profits
CopyCon 19 served up helpful tips and takeaways for not for profits to learn from 2 days. 22 speakers and a room of 160 clever copywriters who are taking their content writing to the next level. Australia’s only dedicated conference for copywriters was back...
I Marie Kondo’d my business and home
Hello, is it me you're looking for? In the last 12 months, I’ve spent a lot of time hauling boxes and rearranging the furniture. In my year of the makeover, I’ve built and moved home and changed my business name and my website. Mine isn’t an uncommon story. I'm...
Author! Author!
It's with a happy heart that I share a little squeal of news
I'm pretty chuffed to announce that Little Hare will be publishing my children’s book JETTY JUMPING, illustrated by the talented Hannah Sommerville.
Cups overflow with hope and charity
It’s a world where tests and trials have you holding your breath - hoping for luck, for the next specialist appointment, for the drugs you can afford, for an opening on the latest trial, for your hair to grow back, for your scars to heal, for the pain to go away...
Give a donation, not slippers for Mother’s Day
This mother's day swap buying slippers for making a donation in your mum's name. The most important gift you can really give on Mother’s Day is the gift of support for another mum in times of distress or emergency care. The Royal Flying Doctor Service of...
Turn a page on #WorldBookDay
It's World Book Day. The day we all pause to pay homage to the pages through which we escape, and find ourselves. Like so many I am most myself with a book in hand. I am most sure of my soul as I stroll past bookshelves. There is no greater joy than to pause...
A home in my heart
I'm not the first to farewell a house. But this week I bid farewell to my house, my home, my sanctuary - place of my own. A place I closed the door on one last time. It's where I welcomed babies, mourned losses, forged friendships and retreated with family. It...
12 reasons to see Humanimals on the Mornington Peninsula
There's a little bit of theatre magic happening for families right here on the Mornington Peninsula this summer. Humanimals Returns is an all-singing, all-dancing children's show that big kids love too. This live high energy performance is staged in Cabaret...
A Copywriter’s Christmas Carol
A copywriter's Christmas carol ... On the first day of Christmas my clients gave to me a digital communications strategy. On the second day of Christmas my clients gave to me two copy decks and a digital communications strategy. On the third day of Christmas my...
Dear Footy, I’m just not that into you
Dear Football, I’m sorry to do this to you today but I’ve got to be honest, I’m just not that into you. Sometimes, it’s best to press the final siren and move on with our lives. I know you’d be much better off without me, and we’re wasting our time with each other....
Page turners: The Peninsula Writers’ Club
What do we call a gathering of writers? A flock? A crowd? A murder? A gaggle? Someone recently suggested to me that it was a scribe. That'll do. A scribe it is. Around these parts, we also call ourselves the Peninsula Writers' Club. Based on the Mornington...
Dear village – the kids & their folks say thanks
I was reflecting on something today about kids, and how communities collectively contribute to the making of who they become. In truth, I’m probably feeling all sentimental because both kids are at adventure and music camp this week, or perhaps it’s because for 15...