I should have added Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as characters in my book; God Has Gone Fishing. Call it a premonition, or a foretelling of impending doom, but the battle of the Oligarchs and Autarchy in my latest book keeps playing out for real now in the media every day. The battle lines in…
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Did you K-now that the silent K in words like K-nee and K-nickK-nack was actually pronounced in Old English. For some reason however, people could not get the K-nack of pronouncing the K as well as the N. So the K sound got K-nocked off. People got all K-notted up and tongue tied when they…
Times change, people change, and the world changes. It seems such a short time ago when self-publishing gave authors like me a fantastic chance. An opportunity to connect directly with readers, and I grabbed it with both hands. While it lasted, those times were wonderful and I recall with such affection the few years when I…
So, what’s Australia really like? The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials. I think! Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow?…
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After a year in the writing, God Has Gone Fishing is finally, out of my control. Yes, I have a new release and it’s a little different from my previous books. Firstly, it’s written in US English, which was a bigger challenge than I imagined and secondly, it is mildly dystopian, which is also a…
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What Is Register? We can all recognise formal and informal texts, but you may not know that it has a name. It is called ‘Register’. The scales of register are generally classified as Formal, Neutral, Informal and Vulgar. In this sense, vulgar refers to childish or common utterances and not rude jokes. So, what is…
