I am absolutely thrilled to bring you an exclusive interview today with Australian children’s author and illustrator Chrissy Byers. This is a must read for anyone hoping to follow in Chrissy’s footsteps and publish a book for kids, so grab yourself a cuppa (or hide in the loo!) and enjoy… “Written, illustrated and self-published by Chrissy Byers, […]
Writing
Why I’m Saying Goodbye to my Well Paid Part Time Job
It’s been no secret that I found going back to work really tough after my third maternity leave. Although we made my working life as easy as it could possibly get, there is no way to dress it up. It has been a shi**y experience. First there was the disaster nanny who we hired to […]
Why I Put My Life Online
Super thrilled to be over on the Huffington Post today, speaking about why I put my life online. I’d love for you to take a look by clicking here.
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In Pursuit of the Elusive Viral Blog Post
It seems every other blogger I know has recently celebrated that most coveted of things. A viral blog post. The big one. The one that resonates with so many people that it gets thousands, even hundreds of thousands of shares. Who knows what happens after that, and if anything changes, but it’s certainly perceived to […]
Has it Really been 10 Years?
I took the littlees to the play park the other day, and we bumped into a pre-school friend of C’s. They immediately wanted to follow each other around which meant that I ended up having a good old natter with the mum; a lovely lady whom I’d not met before. When it was time to […]
#whatimwriting A Roundup
Howdy folks, is it really Tuesday morning already? It’s been another blink and you’ll miss it week in my house, and I cannot believe it’ll be the Easter holidays in a few days time! Tuesday means my post for my writing linky, and after getting all excited last week and high fiving myself about starting to […]
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Inspirational Enough for a Blogging Award?
Although I still have trouble getting my head around this, I am now a published author. My self-help book Become the Best You has been the biggest positive to come from my dysfunctional upbringing. A childhood that was marred with misery, and eventually led to me cutting ties with my entire family. Time and again […]
Taking Bella to the Next Level
This photo was my view whilst feeding the baby last night. A notebook brimming with ideas about how I can develop my short story Decisions Decisions and turn it into a novel. It was a great exercise, because if I’m being honest, I rarely get good old pen and paper out these days. There is […]
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Decisions Decisions…
The clock tick tocked as if it were the soundtrack to her thoughts as she agonised over the decision she had to make. Arriving home to a massive bunch of flowers and the note was so romantic, but that was Luca for you, always the perfect gent. At 26, Bella’s previous experience of men was somewhat […]
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The Interview
Another interview, another outfit crisis. Bella Boltan stared at her reflection in the mirror and tried to see what her potential employer would. Certain that this was the one, the job and that would make her career, she needed to pitch it absolutely perfectly. Asides from her poor fragile ego not being able to take much […]