Bronwyn's Rants

Valerie Parv blogged the other day about 6 things she wished she’d known about being published. You can find that post here. It got me thinking. I’m soon to be published so I can’t outright steal her blog heading and add my own word [...]

I like to think of myself as a good mum, mostly because the alternative is just too hard to bear, but the challenges of being a good mum and a writer are uncountable (or is that innumerable?), some days even, unfathomable. So how do we do it? How do we juggle the kids, the house, the day job, the hu

Well, it’s international women’s day so I thought what better day to celebrate being a woman! Easier said than done for me as I recover from surgery that saw most of my women’s bits removed (I had to have a hysterectomy ten days ago). But my father in law gets squeamish when I go into the details so

_ I’ve been ordering books from the book depository for a few years but now I have a tablet with a Kindle app and I find myself camped out at Amazon. I feel like I’m cheating on the book store (and the actual book) with a giant most hate right now and a format other’s loath with a passion bordering

_ I was lucky enough to get on my hands on an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of The Rogue's Pirate Bride by Shana Galen and I loved it! Let me count the ways... There are two things I absolutely [...]

_ Since so many of you asked for the call story, here it is =) I would start at the beginning but I can’t actually [...]

_With Christmas firmly behind us and a new year looming, packed with possibility and fun times, I wanted to share a few of my favourite things with you. One of them is Christmas. Yes, call me crazy but it’s my favourite time of the year besides Easter. I do have to admit that in our house, it’s not

_ I'll get to the merry Christmas but first, a little something on rejections... A few of my friends have been woe-is-meing over rejections lately (rightly so) and I’ve had my fair share already so it begs this question – what do you do about them? Do you Google the agent/editor/publisher, print

_I've decided (gently nudged by the challenge) to read more next year. I'm signing up to read 20 books written by Australian female authors. Should be easy. One every fortnight with a few weeks off for good behaviour =) Will you sign up and give it a go? 2012 Challenge Australian Women Writers

We all love Fairy Tales. Don’t shake your head and say that you don’t because you’re lying. Even if you don’t right now, at one stage in your life, you were a huge fan. Disney had made a motza from remakes like the most recent Tangled which is the tale of Rapunzel. It’s now one of my favourite Disne