Every day I receive upwards of twenty emails offering me marketing services. Usually, they are extremely long tirades of praise for ‘my book’ – rarely actually named – a detailed analysis of the gaps in my marketing, and then an offer to fix those gaps – at a cost. I have learned to read through …
At the end of every novel, I have written a tribute to the wonderful volunteers who maintain the Trove national database, a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of partner organisations around Australia. Trove contains digital copies of newspapers, Government Gazettes, maps, magazines and newsletters. It also hosts books, pictures, photographs, archived …
In this, my second blog, I decided to write about my other passion – genealogical research. When my parents died, many years ago, they left behind folders and folders of painstakingly collected family history research. Some older family members had been researching for years and there were many records such as birth and death certificates …
Welcome to my first blog! In this piece, I thought I’d talk a little more about the research behind my most recent book, Last Coach to Quartz Hill, to add to what I said in the historical notes at the end of the book. I began by doing an internet search for the Quartz Hill …
