About Me

I was born in 1957 in Ballarat, Victoria. My first foray into writing was when I helped my mother compile my Grandmothers life story. Gran was the matriarch of the family and she had quite a story to tell. It took three years to compile, edit, add pictures, documents until the final product was presented to her on her 90th Birthday.
My family moved to Queensland a few years later and I became a member of the Gold Coast Writers Assoc. then known as Writers at the Fair.

I attended writing classes and began to regularly submit book reveiws, articles to appear in ‘Writeabout’ the Gold Coast Writers magazine, which I still do in the on line e-Writeabout.

I received various awards for short story writing competitions from Place Prizes to Commended including a successful short story submission to Antipodean SF. During this time, I continued to write book reviews and articles for a wider market in Zeus Publications newsletter, Queensland Writers Centre magazine ‘Writing Queensland’, and many on-line newsletters including The Reading Stack and Pass it On.

‘Dual Visions’ is my first SciFi book, self published through Publicious, and available for purchase.

I have completed the follow-up book to ‘Dual Visions’ titled of ‘Vashla’s World’, it has been short listed in a writing competition and submitted. I enjoyed being pushed to finish this book, as I had submitted the first three chapters and synopsis for the competition, without the book being completed. When I was short listed I had to submit it quickly.

I have served on the Committee of Gold Coast Writers for four years and recently collaborated with members of the sub group ‘The Ten Penners’ writing for children group, in producing a collection of short stories called ‘Fan-tas-tic-al Tales’. Writing stories for children, as a grandmother of two beautiful girls, is a true delight.

For more about my books, read the synopsis to ‘Dual Visions’, I’m also adding Red Hen which is just like PayPal for easy purchase of my books.

I work full time and look forward to being able to write full time.