The Blackberry Bush: A memoir

HEATHER CARTER’S honest memoir spans six decades of her life; revealing how her painful childhood of neglect, early depression, domestic violence and alcoholism; was endured and overcome with faith and compassion. Despite witnessing so much sadness in her life, Heather also saw the beauty. In this story of survival and transformation, she writes with vivid and humorous detail about the entangled lives of her large family, about her personal struggles with trauma and Bi Polar Disorder, and about the strange sort of peace she was [read more...]

[Testimonial] Book – Kismet

Kismet fate – destiny the illusive puppeteer that manipulates the strings. It is 1997, and three years since apartheid was dismantled. A New South Africa has emerged, victorious. Opportunities abound and hope transcends, but for some the warped ideology of that era still lingers. Doctor Henry Keyler a TV panellist, is intent on promoting unity across the racial divides. Attractive and alluring, his co-panellist, attorney Lexie Lewin, has become a voice for abused women. For the most part, her marriage to the charismatic Steve [read more...]

Pilgrimage

Another great poetry book from John Campbell Gardiner. See other books available by John. The Dawn of Life and Other Australian Tales. Power of Plants. Antipodean Seasons.

Cedar Creek

Bronwyn Trotters 'Cedar Creek' – Book Two of The Trappers Promise trilogy, continues the intriguing story of Sarah Cole: A trapper, born and raised in the wilds of the Rockies. Winter has arrived with a vengeance! The trappers have left the mountain to get paid for their skins so they can get supplies to see them through next year’s trapping, but Sarah hates Cedar Creek. The day she and her son Thomas ride in, she clashes with new sheriff Christian Morgan, a man with a past he is trying hard to keep buried, and they become [read more...]

Blind Vision

When 10-year-old James Pittar started having trouble seeing at night he could never have predicted that within a decade, his vision would be all but gone. For a kid that dreamed of representing his country, it was a hard blow. And for most people, it would have spelled the end of that dream. But not for James. Just a few months shy of his thirtieth birthday, James did what no blind person has ever done before – he swam the English Channel. It signalled a shift in his mindset – from that point onwards, he would never think of [read more...]

How to Sell Your Si-fi or Fantasy Book

Author: David Watts Books: Killervolt and Boombox I had a new Goodreads 4 star review for Killervolt pop up last week. I attended a local collector event and sold just under a dozen books in 4 hours. I even had two returning readers spot me there and could not pay me fast enough to get their hands on the new Boombox. I'm also attending Supanova at the end of the month, which is a huge two day Sci-Fi gathering, this should be a big one for the books. The photos below are from the small 4-hour event:

The Wind Queen

This is a reflective story about a woman by the name of Elspeth Abney who lived in the Australian High Country located in the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales and her life expressed in her very final moments of living. As the dying woman breaths in and out; transitioning through the sky gate to heaven, the story unfolds into a pictorial display of beautifying natural inferences. Elspeth’s life memoires are subtly sketched through memory nuances of the open plains and bushy scapes, a powerful bird of prey and other natural influences [read more...]

Secrets on the Lake

Secrets on the Lake is the poignant story of the struggles and successes of two remarkable sisters, Laura and Libby. Defying all odds the girls grow up battling their way through life with the support and love of their grandmother, who rescued them from their alcohol and drug addicted parents and instilled in them the values and character to overcome adversity and look beyond their world. Laura, the older sister, the main protagonist of this novel, pursues her dream of becoming an international lawyer working for the United [read more...]

Pirates at Mafeking Bay: The Tale of a Fishing Inspector.

Fisheries and Wildlife Officer Kirby Wellington has been promoted from head office to second in command at a country station. On his first day out of the office, on the real job, his new boss gives him some lessons and advice about the fish poachers he will encounter at Mafeking Bay. The boss calls them pirates who rape and pillage the fish resources and flout associated laws in that part of the world. He predicts that Kirby and Lincoln Campbell, the biggest pirate of them all, will cross paths in the near future. This [read more...]