Alt text: Close up of branches showing pale pink cherry blossoms against a bright, pale blue sky. Cherry blossoms outside my study window....

  Alt Text: Collage of dahlia photos - two photos of individual pink flowers, one with petals of deep pink bleeding into white, other flower...

  How is December treating you? Give me all your news! Auckland is in the middle of a heat wave after a bunch of rain, so my gardens are a j...

  Alt Text - collage of flowers: yellow kowhai, pale yellow daffodils, red fresias, white hebe. How was your weekend, my lovelies? Spring ha...

  First dahlia post of 2025! The flowers are blooming - though they’ve had to contend with some crazy winds! Lots of staking and tying to he...

Hello my lovelies! I've been in the writing cave for a good while - now I emerge blinking like a mole.  How are you doing? It's spri...

  Some flowers for you from my garden.  What are you up to this week? I’m at my writing desk (and sometimes in the garden!)

I spent some time in the garden this weekend, cutting down dahlia stalks, scattering their seeds in the hope of random seedlings, potting up...

Hello from the writing desk - where I’m currently working on the next Guild Hunter book.  What’re you up to today?

  Nalini and I had giant hot chocolates when we went out for lunch in the weekend (spoon for scale). What did you get up to over the weekend...

Hello my lovely readers. How was your weekend?  I spent one day tidying up my garden and getting in some spring bulbs so they'll sleep t...

Hello my lovelies! How has the year been treating you so far?  I've been busy going over the Storm Echo copy edits, and starting work o...

 It's been a while since we caught up. What are you all up to at the moment?  I spent most of the weekend clearing out a garden in readi...

It's early Monday afternoon here in New Zealand, and I'm gearing up for the week with lots of tea! What are you up to? What are y...

What are you up to? I’m working on my next contemporary (Nayna and Raj and some crazy family shenanigans). No release date yet as I want to...