I am off to Cradle Mountain in Tasmania for a few days. It’s cold in Melbourne, it will be colder down there being that much closer to Antartica. But the beauty and serenity of the place will sure make up for it. See you when I get back.

Just when I thought I had come to the end of my novel, Little Paradise, and had even gone out to a French restaurant to celebrate, I have now found that I still need to write two more chapters.

It’s so tempting to rush an ending. But my duty to the novel and to my readers is to draw out the suspense, to make the story that much more satisfying when the last page is turned.

It was very nice to find my blog, A Passing Whisper, on the list of the Top 50 Aussie Writers Blogs.

You can see the whole list at http://tinyurl.com/dmw9l2

If you have a website or are setting one up, it’s really important that you’re able to change the information contained within it without having to ask the web designer to do it for you. My web designer and nephew, Jin, used Wordpress to create my website. And now I can add new pages and pics, change copy and generally have fun playing around inside its borders. This gives me enormous flexibility as far as adding ideas or new info. A website needs regular updates to keep people interested.