It’s no secret that Queensland has great weather and fantastic beaches, but a prolific writing community? Well, that’s not so well known. The Queensland Writers Centre is aiming to change that with its annual Books From Our Backyard catalogue – packed full of books published by Queensland authors. The QWC kicked off this year’s campaignContinue reading “Books from our Backyard”
Category Archives: Writing
Counterfeit Love
The wait is over! Counterfeit Love, my new book for young adults, is now available at bookshops and online. Lucy Yang is loving her first television job in Hong Kong. She works hard and plays hard, and she doesn’t have time for a relationship if she wants to become a TV news anchor by the timeContinue reading “Counterfeit Love”
15 ways to build your writing voice
An authentic and unique voice – it’s what every publisher is looking for in a manuscript, and what every writer is trying to project. It was certainly the topic of the day at the Gold Coast Writers Festival this weekend. So what exactly is this illusive quality? Writer Joe Moore sums it up this way: “Just likeContinue reading “15 ways to build your writing voice”
The Call of the Wild
I’ve just sent off the final pages for my new book in the Choose Your Own Ever After series – The Call of the Wild. Yahoo! I can’t wait to see the finished product. In this story, nature-loving Phoebe has to choose between helping at a save-the-organutan movie night, and going to a super-cool party with besties.Continue reading “The Call of the Wild”
Author alert: Blog tours can be dangerous
Call me accident-prone if you like (you wouldn’t be alone), but I may be the first author to sprain an ankle on a virtual book tour. As you know, over the past month, I’ve been visiting writing buddies across the country talking about my first book in the Choose Your Own Ever After series –Continue reading “Author alert: Blog tours can be dangerous”
A visit to Hazard River
It’s hard not to be inspired by this place – a little corner of bushland between the Noosa River and the North Shore beach. There are no chic shops or must-do restaurants on this side of the river. It’s all about dirt tracks, deserted beaches, boats, bikes and unexpected encounters – kangaroos boxing on theContinue reading “A visit to Hazard River”
Choose Your Own Ever After
GREAT news for girls who like to call the shots! YOU get to decide where the story goes in Choose Your Own Ever After The fun starts with How To Get To Rio. Follow your heart right to the end, and then go back and choose all over again. Schoolgirl Kitty McLean has to choose between goingContinue reading “Choose Your Own Ever After”
Get Smitten
Fall in love with the Smitten series. Tall, Dark and Distant: He’s gorgeous, with god-like abs and an adorable English accent. Then she discovers that he’s actually a member of an obscenely wealthy Russian family, and he wants to get to know her better. Nik catapults Georgia into a world of private yachts, fast cars andContinue reading “Get Smitten”
My Writing Process
Thank you to the wonderfully talented, and all-round gorgeous, children’s author Krista Bell, for inviting me to be part of My Writing Process Blog Tour. I first met Krista on a visit to Central Queensland. I shared an apartment and many laughs with Krista and another inspirational author, Susanne Gervay. We were part of aContinue reading “My Writing Process”
Signs, synchronicity and orangutans
Well, this is a coincidence. I am working on a new Choose Your Own Ever After story. In The Call of the Wild, Phoebe, the nature-loving main character, has to choose between going to a save-the-orangutan fund raiser or heading off to a party with her best friends. Then yesterday, as I’m getting the kidsContinue reading “Signs, synchronicity and orangutans”
Julie Fison 