My Experience with KIRKUS REVIEWS - did not have a pleasant experience!

This post is mainly to alert Australian authors about my UNPLEASANT experience using the services of Kirkus Reviews to attract a national, US or international readership.You may have seen the Australian eBay advertisement on TV called eBay Tuesday where customers who do not use eBay are denigrated. The actor’s spiel is a mantra called, RIPPED OFF, ROZ.  Let me tell...

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Writing Residencies Await in NSW & WA

I am pleased to announce that in October 2022 I will be spending time as a KSP Fellowship recipient for rwo weeks working on my next novel *The Tattooed City* /Tattoo City (a working title).I was not expecting to receive my acceptance email as the Katharine Sussanah Pritchard Writers Centre is highly competitive and prestigious. The centre has announced all the successful...

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