Since moving to Perth, one of my favourite activities has been wine tasting at various wineries around the region. In 2024, I discovered a handful of wine brands I really enjoy (along with a couple I would never pick up again) and have been expanding my palette to see which wines are my favourite. When […]

Throughout 2024, I spent a lot of time reflecting on the types of stories that I write and why I tend to explore these themes across my entire body of work. I’m not somebody who sits down and decides to write a book ‘by formula’ or ‘for market’ – I always have, and always will, […]

I recently did a post sharing my favourite cosy games from 2024, but there are tons of exciting games that I’m still looking forward to in 2025 (and even as far as 2026). This list doesn’t include any open world games, mainly because there are only two on my list of most anticipated releases (GTA […]

You might recall that The Retelling was, up until a few weeks ago, a monthly membership rather than a bi-weekly newsletter. When I created ‘The Retelling’ in September 2024, it came about because I was craving a space that I could pour into whenever I had big breakthroughs to share, new strategies to record trainings […]

You know when you pick up a book and you get so engrossed in it, you can’t stop thinking about reading it even when you’re not reading it? For me, this happened for the first time in MANY years on a Saturday evening, when I had wandered down to a wine bar to try and […]

As someone who is actively building a personal brand and is working on a range of different writing projects, I’m sharing some of my big, scary, audacious goals for this year. This is the year I’m getting paid to write and creating my best pieces of work. The year I’m fully diversifying and monetising my […]

In recent years, I’ve gotten more and more into cosy games, specifically anything farming or tycoon management related. While I’ll always enjoy a good open world adventure, I find cosy games easier to get into after a long work day, and that they require less energy and brainpower. For me at least, cosy games allow […]

Are you a newer author looking to publish your first (or next) book, but also wanting to ensure you give it the best possible chance at selling and reaching tons of readers? When I started publishing in 2016, I released my debut novel (Stuck on Vacation with Ryan Rupert) to an audience of crickets, made […]