Peter Long’s launch of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Hawkeye Publishing his latest historical fiction novel inspired by true events and his father’s involvement in highly dangerous...
I was also commissioned to write a review of Anne Freeman’s latest novelThe Time After Now. Her launch of the same at Books@Stones on the 1 October brought out a fleet of...
Last weekend I was a guest of Tyalgum Music Festival. Tyalgum is in Northern Rivers, NSW which is a 2.5-hour journey from Brisbane. A beautiful spot and unspoilt...
Eumundi Writers Festival 4-6 September is directed at authors which makes it a positive networking opportunity and there are a raft of informative sessions and opportunities to...
The last few months have been action packed with many author events to promote Elvis and Me: how a musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other, Hawkeye Publishing.
Many of you are authors or aspiring authors and will have heard about the need to promote your book. This is what I’ve been working hard at. I work on it so extensively I’ve...
I was the guest of the Barrington Book Club online which was daunting because I had to post a video of myself explaining why I wrote Elvis, my writing routines, give advice to...
Apart from writing many reviews for Sting’s The Last Ship, Opera Queensland’s Rusalka, Camerata’s, Revolution Remixed, Musica Viva’s Dorik Quartet and Lloyd van’t Hoff I...
The second edition of my memoir Elvis and Me: how a musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other, Hawkeye Publishing is released on the 1 August.
Writers don’t get much positive feedback. But I was thrilled to be told that my article about Ransome where I lived published in the Brisbane Times had been a big hit. The first...
Talking of opera, I enjoyed chatting to Camilo Lopez one of the founding directors of the boutique opera company Voxalis when I was commissioned to write an article about this...
Collaborations between symphony orchestras and rock stars are often not a partnership, because the orchestra is reduced to a supplicant contributing a string surge here or a...
Check out this new collaborative single by Pauline Maudy and Paddy McHugh - You’re the One. Outon Valentine’s Day through Troubadour Presents, You’re the One is a celebration...
Hawkeye Publishing, a trade publisher based in Queensland, is adventurous about the books it selects for publication. You can check out the range here.
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