​G’day everyone,

Thought I’d start doing some regular updates to my blog websites.

I’ll be using this news section for a number of things like the book reviews, updates to my WIP and anything else that comes to me.

This post is mainly about some feedback I got from a recent All Genre writing group that I received.  Now this feedback was amazing really but I felt conflicted about receiving it.

What a fun little adventure this book provided.

I was searching for another Aussie author, this time in the action/adventure genre and Matt’s name popped up.  As soon as I read the description on this book I knew it would be right up my alley.

I wasn’t disappointed either.  It was a great story of good vs evil and while easy reading, it captured the violent confrontations with in-depth detail.

I not only enjoyed this book but I learnt a lot from it too.

The narrative of the book which utilised flashbacks regularly wasn’t something that I’d come across before and it gave each character time to shine through the eyes of the main character.

​I’ll definitely be checking out a few more of Matt’s books.

So I thought I’d kick off my ‘Bookshelf’ updates with something that’s a bit left field for me.  Romance. Yep, I put aside the fantasy/sci-fi novels and went to work on this novel by Rachel Armstrong.  

Rachel is also a Townsville local and the facilitator of the popular fiction writing group through Townsville Writers and Publishers Centre.  Unfortunately I’ve only got to attend this writing group once since joining TWPC but from that one session.

After reading that this book was set in a fictional town in NQ Queensland, it ticked a number of boxes for me for areas of writing I wanted to learn more about.  Like how an author writes about

• Australian = ✅
• Rural setting = ✅
• Romance = ✅

My own book that I’m working on at the moment is set in a small town in Central West Queensland and even though the main narrative of my book isn’t romance, I wanted to explore writing some of it in.  Having little (actually no) experience writing romance, this book was a great introduction to the genre.

Rachel does a great job of building suspense and real relationships between the characters.  Anyone that’s visited a small town could relate to the warmth and hospitality of the people.

The link to Rachel’s website is below where you can buy the book, it’s worth checking out.