: About Me

I am journalist from Queensland , Australia.
I write general news stories and a weekly humour column as well as a monthly gardening column.
I have spent about 20 years writing on arts and entertainment and I was a police reporter for a few years.

I have just published my first novel Iraqi Icicle (available at www.lulu.com and www.lulu.com/uk) and want everyone who reads this to buy it.

I have spell-checked this article but I refuse to accept humour is spelled humor unless you are writing for US readers only.

My passion is ...

fruit, passion fruit, get it. Oh well, it's late on Friday afternoon.

I know too much about ...

betting on horses.

My parents always told me ...

If you scowl and the wind changes your face will stay like that forever.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be able to spell ambishun.

My favorite memory ...

is the one I forgot last week, but it will come back.

Why I write ...

for fun, to entertain and stimulate readers and to pretend it will make me fabulously wealthy

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading Iraqi Icicle by Bernie Dowling and I suggest you do too.

My first job ...

was as a Gold Coast City Council sewerage worker. True, after that I was destined to be a writer.

My best moment ...

is just around the corner.

My inspiration ...

Australia has produced some great comic writers including Lenny Lower, Frank Hardy and John Hepworth.

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Chapter 1 Brisbane, summer in early December, 1989 In my book, theatre is a foreign country. The only Greek tragedy I know is an episode of Australian television's alleged comedy Acropolis Now. Which was why I pretended to be mesmerised by the form of the horses for the Dalby races when Natalie spoke. You'll have to go to Bub's opening night, Steele.' I couldn't find a dead cert for Dalby, but you could put the house on my not fronting for the opening night of some play. Especially if Bub was in it. Nat's little sister and I pretty much exchanged only frosts since I refused to help Jane Bu...

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