If writing a book is like pregnancy, then conception is the spark of ideas, exciting and new. Gestation is the long haul of writing, the all-day morning sickness, the lumpy lugging around of the protruding manuscript, and the occasional joyful kick and the happy knowledge that something is growing.
When the thing is fully cooked, there comes the labour pains. You huff and you puff and you pitch and you huff and you puff and you pitch and you huff and puff and you pitch.
Then a publisher says yes! and the midwife says it’s time to push.
The time between the excitement of that yes! and holding the paper baby in my hand is where I now, with a book stuck in my birth canal.
Because I have a book coming out.
Finalist Best Fantasy Novel 2017 Aurealis Awards
Is the future set like concrete or a piece of clay we can mould and change?
On a remote farm in Queensland, Cassie Shultz feels useless. Her perfect brother Alex has an uncanny ability to predict the weather, and the fortunes of the entire family hinge on his forecasts. However, her gift for prophecy remains frustratingly obscure. Attempts to help her family usually fail.
After meeting with her new genius neighbour Athena, Cassie thinks she has unlocked the secret of her powers. But as her visions grow more vivid, she learns that the cost of honing her gift may be her sanity.
With her family breaking apart, the future hurtles towards Cassie faster than she can comprehend it.
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