Mayhem in Melbourne

I have just read a piece by Australian author Ilka Tampke whose book, ‘Songwoman’ was voted the most ‘underrated book of the year’.  Her article in the Guardian starts by saying, ‘Writing is tough. My book went so unnoticed I won an award for it.’ Going unnoticed is the plight of so many of us writers. There could be an award for the most unnoticed book of the year. But I guess the underrated is better because not only was this book not noticed for some time, it was seen as a great book when it was noticed. Sadly, unnoticed…

I have spent the last few days deciding on a cover for my novel, Mayhem in Melbourne. I had two very different concepts to choose from. So hard to choose! They are both great. But I’ve bitten the bullet and made a choice. Strangely all the men I asked chose one and the women the other one. There was no variation; men one way, women the other. I’m not sure what that says. I’m in this envious position of choosing a cover because I’m enrolled in a wonderful course with the Writing New South Wales (Writing NSW ) and called…