: About Me

I live and work in Melbourne Victoria Australia, I run my own editing and writing company called Perfect Editorial.

I love to write and have always been a great reader from very young, I am currently writing a book about one of the last women hung in Victoria in 1886, I think she was innocent and I am currently searching every archive in Melbourne for information on her life.

I also love to write for children, especially using animals as characters with voices and opinions, I tend to use my dogs and my cat a lot as inspiration.

I have been happily married to John for almost 19 years and can't understand how he puts up with me sometimes, especially when I hide away so often with my computer creating worlds and excluding my own.

So that is a little about me, just your normal every day write-aholic, highly creative and very driven.

My passion is ...

Being a Palliative Care Volunteer

I know too much about ...

Grief and Loss

My parents always told me ...

Your better off with your own company than being with bad company

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be a nurse

My favorite memory ...

Taking the ferry on the Liverpool Mersey River and spending the day at New Brighton on my own.

Why I write ...

I have to write

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

Perfume - By Patrick Suskind, Brilliant, better than the movie.

My first job ...

Shop assistant in a Butchers

My best moment ...

Turning 40 years old - I finally felt like an adult.

My inspiration ...

Everywhere I look........

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Historical fiction

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Martha........... DIARY The 22nd Day of October 1894 - Melbourne Australia My dearest Otto, this will be the last entry to my diary, the last piece of me that I can give to you. Inside its pages, I have been documenting my life, there are twenty five years of memories and thoughts, enough I hope to keep you thinking of me for a long time to come. I know this has been hard on you, I hope now you can find some peace. Since arriving here at this rat infested prison, I have endured more than I ever thought possible, but there is little pity for a woman deemed a murderess. So; here I sit in a c...

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