Here are some festive facts for you: 1. Bing Crosby’s version of “White Christmas” is the highest-selling music single of all time. 2. Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, willed his November 13th birthday to the daughter of a friend who hated her Christmas birthday. 3. Robert L. May created Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer for the retailer Montgomery Ward in 1939. People...
Although I’ve visited Panama before via land (around thirty years ago) and peered at the canal from the shore, I was looking forward to actually sailing through. A small part of me wondered if I might get bored—I mean, an entire day of canals then lake then more...
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The city of Auckland is built on and around a field of volcanoes, which I think accounts for my fascination with volcanoes. One day, I will use volcanoes in a romance. Somehow. I’ve been lucky enough to see most of our New Zealand volcanoes, including the more active...
Getting emotion into a romance is one of the hardest jobs of a writer. Stringing words together to make a story seem real and rounded, one that draws the reader into the world the writer has created is plain hard. A few years ago Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi...
2019. If you’ve read some of my other posts, you’ll know I started with a holiday, but writing was never far from my mind. This is what I’ve been working on and these projects will be available for readers very soon. So just how did the Mitchell family from my...
Our cuisine in New Zealand is a fusion of European, Asian and Pacific influences with an emphasis on our fresh produce and seafood. We don’t get much in the way of Mexican food in New Zealand, and Mr. Munro and I decided to attend a cooking class when our cruise ship...
