Author: Jenn J McLeod

Australia's nomadic novelist living on the road a purple and white caravan called Myrtle the Turtle. Come home to the country: House for all Seasons (#5 top selling novel in 2013), Simmering Season (2014), Season of Shadow and Light (2015), The Other Side of the Season (2016), A Place to Remember (2018), House of Wishes (2019)
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Life Imitates Arts Cruelly Sometimes

Oscar Wilde said, “Life imitates art, more than art imitates life“.  I wish it did so we could all get our happy ever after.

You may have read an earlier blog about my latest work-in-progress House for all Seasons.

I’ve based one of my four female characters – a breast cancer survivor – on a wonderful woman called Pam Leicester. (Pam and I once made a pretty good team, winning a national road safety award for our NRMA Young Driver Education program.)
I worked with Pam through her initial diagnosis, through surgery, then Chemo. She was inspirational. In my novel, my character’s courage and determination to get through her ‘bucket list’ comes from my memories of Pam.

Sadly, I heard Pam (she’s the shorty in the pic) lost her almost ten-year battle last week. It was the day before her 45th birthday.

As a writer, through Sara’s character, I can at least give Pam the happy ever after she deserved.

Always remembered.

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You are heros

Thank you for caring, for your encouragement and for your kind words (previous post) and for dropping by when I needed a lift.

You guys really are heros, knights in shining armour, Prince Charmings, whose kind words, sweet kiss or swift kick when needed (hmmm, let’s stick to kind words – LOL) can wake a sleeping, blogless damsel, turning a frog princess into a blog queen again.

Yes folk, thanks to you, I’m back!!!!!

Inspiration is starting to pump through my veins already. I can feel a blog surge building.

2010 – bring it on! (Rrrr-ribitt!)

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I’m not smiling

Forty-three posts since April last year.

Not bad I guess, given I’d never blogged before and didn’t think I’d have anything useful to say.
I should be smiling.
I’m not.
It seems the well has dried up. I am blogless.

This is NOT a good start to the year.
I did take most of December off, after promising the family (and partner) I’d spend less time at the computer. Seems however that was a BIG mistake.
You see I got off the rollercoaster, now I can’t seem to get back on.
Can somebody please tell me how to get back on the ride.