Today my most time-consuming project is resettling. My husband, Frank, and I recently finished 18 months of travel which began as a road trip around Australia’s Outback. We made it half-way around the country in eight months. When summer hit, we fled the Outback and bought ourselves a pair of round-the-world flights. Those flights carried us to a huge variety of places from New Zealand to Iceland and, months later, back home to Sydney.
I’ve turned our Outback adventure into a book tentatively titled The Big Drive. In fact, the photos on this page were taken on that trip. Writing a light hearted book based on reality was a lot of fun and is very different from working on novels. If it goes well, who knows, there might just be a sequel about our round-the-world trip.
In my spare time, I’m trying to find an agent or publisher for The Big Drive and my second novel, Life’s Journeys. This is a modern book about a 30-ish woman climbing the corporate ladder of IT in Sydney. Is this Chick Lit? The jury’s out.
I’ve completed a third novel about a woman not yet 60 and who, through the eyes of everyone close to her, is a rock-solid suburban housewife. She knows the truth and her exploration of how she ended up with her current life is the subject of Confessions of an Aging Adulterer. I plan another thorough edit of this book before I start shopping it around to agents and publishers.
One more book in progress is a murder mystery. This isn’t my genre at all but when a friend told me I’d have more luck getting attention if I stopped writing books about women and threw in some exploding cars and blood-soaked bodies, I figured I’d give it a try. This one is really interesting to write and one day, I just might finish it. It’s as yet unnamed.