Thunder Road

Journalists are trained to get the story first or at least gather facts that are exclusive to your report. As an author, you should be striving for a different sort of exclusivity.

Sometimes there are moments of harmony amid the clamour of our lives. Splinters of time when sounds, sights, tasks and tastes seem to align.

The south coast region where we stayed on Kangaroo Island had a transient population of 11 humans, one crowd-pleasing poodle and countless birds and bull-ants.

A hard copy read-through of a manuscript is a must.