Rowe Street, Sydney and Nina Mae McKinney — Two Jewels of the Past

Bohemian Heart, the story I contributed to the free ebook anthology Stomping Ground, is set in both current day Sydney and the Sydney of the 1930s. Rowe Street, which began life in the mid 1800s, features in the storyline because of its colorful history. Little more than a narrow lane hidden behind grand edifices, it became […]

Autobiographical Story Cut and Folded

A lot of people ask me how I develop my characters for my books. I always start with people I know and clip them into shape for what I need. I also start with incidents from my own life, then stretch to what my character might feel. I capsolize the events around […]