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Hey Bookworm! 

Welcome to my newsletter. I'd love to share my highlights from the past month. I forgot to email last month, so March will remain a mystery to you all. If the curiosity is getting the better of you, head on over to my Facebook page - that's where I tend to hang out.

  • Writing - Anzac Day
  • Reading - Bon Bons
  • Life - Birthday Cake
Slowly but surely, the word count is growing on my new novel. Some days, I don't manage to find make the time to write. Other days, I have to drag those first hundred words out of my brain until I find my flow. Occasionally, the inspiration hits and the words pour forth. One such day was April 25. 

My work in progress is set in the town I'm living in and inspired by my military wife experience. I had plotted in a scene about the characters singing at the dawn service on Anzac day, so what better time to write that scene than right after I did exactly that. I'd sung at the dawn service at RAAF Base Wagga with the Australian Military Wives Choir last year and was proud to participate again. As I walked back to my car after the service, the sights, sounds and emotion of the service were vivid. Scrabbling to get out of my brain.

I sat in the car, opened the email app on my phone and wrote. When it was time to go, I emailed the partial scene to myself then went out for breakfast with my hubby and his colleagues. After breakfast, I headed into town to meet the choir and sing at the main service, as well. 

In the afternoon, I squeezed in more writing time. I wrote when hubby fell asleep on the couch watching a movie with me. He had been up even earlier than me to manage the traffic onto the base. I snuck outside to write in the back garden when the kids got too noisy (my daughter came home from sleeping over at a friends house and brought said friend with her to sleep at ours). I edited while the kids were in the bath then uploaded the scene to my website so I could share it with you.

For context, this scene will come near the middle of the book. It is told from the perspective of Megan, who has only been living in Wagga for around four months with her partner, Danielle, who is a Navy trainee. 

Read the scene HERE --> Sing Loud, Sing Proud
The book I'd like to highlight this month is Bon Bons to Yoga Pants by fellow military spouse Katie Cross.
 
I listened to the audiobook and I can't wait to read the rest of the series. You can read my review HERE.
April is my favourite month.

It has the school holidays, which means I get to sleep in for two weeks. It often has Easter, which means chocolate. And more chocolate. It has Anzac Day, which doesn't mean sleeping in, but is a wonderful experience, nonetheless. But best of all, it has my birthday, which means even more chocolate. A chocolate covered chocolate ice cream cake, to be precise.

This year, I turned 42 and my inner adolescent sci-fi nerd came to the forth as I pulled my dusty copy of Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from the shelf and searched for relevant quotes to post on social media. 

 
If you've read any of my books and have a couple of minutes spare, I'd love it if you wrote a short review on Amazon, Goodreads or Bookbub.
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