JUGGLING SUPERSTAR?

woman juggling

Juggling Superstar

This is NOT a picture of me. I’ve never had legs that long or a skirt that short.

It IS however, how I feel at the moment with the full swing of work, writing, and motherhood now in force. I’m teaching yoga to dance students at one university and creative writing to many more at another – including over sixty darling pieces of weekly homework. I’m continuing to teach yoga privately, that’s my bread and butter, and do editing, as well as being chief cook and bottle washer for my lovely, always-hungry, mess-making family.

And in between all of this, I stake out a claim for the work I really want to do – my new writing project! “Dear Madman – In Search of the Shadowman and the Nature of Forgiveness,” a combined memoir and investigative piece revolving around the murder of my grandmother’s sister as a child.

It’s fascinating work, characters are demanding to be heard, research to be done. A structure to be found.

Best of all, it’s already piqued the attention of one of Australia’s leading publishers. So hold tight. Perhaps one day soon I’ll be paid money for my writing  and be able to spend more of my precious time doing it.

Until then, I’ll continue juggling, keeping all those balls in the air, and remembering to breathe!

NEW THRILL SEEKERS INTERVIEW

Thrill Seekers

Thrill Seekers

 

I’ve just done an interesting new Interview about Thrill Seekers with Dr Dawn Barker –  child psychiatrist and author of Fractured . After Fractured is released in late February, Dawn will be doing a guest post here about the link between psychosis and recreational drugs, a must read, especially for parents of young teens.

Like me and my friends Favel Parrett, Chris Currie, Monique McDonell, Azra Alagic, Simon Groth and Phillipa Fioretti, Dawn won a place in a Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette manuscript development program, though a couple of years after the rest of us. She was fortunate enough to get a contract and Fractured is the result. I’m really looking forward to reading it. It tells the story of a young woman suffering post-natal depression and the ramifications of that illness. Right up my dark and twisted alley!