Why writing is like basketball (with the pitches for my first two novels at the end)

I finished writing my first novel, She’s on Pointe, at the start of 2020. I sent my first batch of queries out the day New Zealand went into Level 4 lockdown… I got a couple full manuscript requests in those first couple days and started to get my hopes up… And then, well, COVID-times andContinue reading “Why writing is like basketball (with the pitches for my first two novels at the end)”

Getting back en pointe

I used to dance. Ballet. From ages six to almost-18. I may not have been amazing, but I was pretty good, and I loved it. It was actually a bit of a tough decision to pursue university studies over trying to dance professionally, but I chose uni and stopped dancing. For over 10 years IContinue reading “Getting back en pointe”