If you like:

Urban fantasy with some steam and romance – start with Wicked Games.
Romantasy/romantic fantasy – start with The Shattered Court.

No, I’m a wide author. They are available for sale in ebook at all the usual places plus my own store (click store on the menu bar). They are all in Kobo Unlimited and available to libraries via Libby/Hoopla etc if you are looking for ways to save some pennies on books (aren’t we all). 

Not in my Melanie books (well, not so far). Some of the M.J. books do have cliffhangers but the ones that do are in complete series currently, so you can binge away happily.

All of them are in paperback. You can order them from the usual paperback type places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org. If you need the paperback ISBN, then go to the individual book’s page and the ISBN is under the Info tab. That’s what you need to look up the paperback in a store or give to a smaller bookstore so they can order it for you.

I’m just starting to do audiobooks, starting with the TechWitch series. Wicked Games and Wicked Words are both out in audiobook (and you can find those ISBNs on the info tab too. Give them a listen (so I can afford to do more!) 😀 

I recommend you do, yes. All my fantasy and urban fantasy series have ongoing plots across the series. The romances kind of do too. You could probably read them out of order but it’s more fun if you don’t.

Kobo Plus works like Kindle Unlimited. It’s a monthly subscription that lets you read (and listen if you add the audiobook option) to your heart’s content. For author’s it’s great because you don’t have to be exclusive like you do in Kindle Unlimited. So authors who aren’t in KU like me, might just be in Kobo Plus.

You don’t need a Kobo e-reader, you can use their app on any device.

Find out more on Kobo’s website.

Yes, I have two cats. The Diva kitty (who is a typically spicy and opinionated tortoiseshell though also a big old scaredy pants) called Vesper and the Not So Tiny Tuxie (my tuxedo kitten, Billie, who is currently 8 months old, the complete opposite to Vesper in that she loves everyone and isn’t scared of much at all. There was a bit of break between my previous tortie passing away and me adding a new friend for Vesper and consequently she is yet to be entirely convinced Billie is a Good Idea. But this is a cat who once took six months to decide a new cat bed wasn’t a deadly cat trap, so maybe they will yet end up best buddies.

Previous cats that I sometimes talk about:
The Elder Tortie/The Big Tortie: Callie who was a calico/tortie who was unusually sweet for a tortie
The Fuzzy Girl: Sophie who was a fluffy grey and white sweetie
The Orange Cat: Tabasco a red burmese who was more dog than cat, was both adorable and annoyingly stubborn and very loud
The Grey Cat: Jessie who was a smoky grey fluffy tabby who put up with Tabasco yowling at her and loving her too much. 

Honestly I’m a Coke Zero girl. Coffee makes me sick and tea just doesn’t quite do it (I don’t love hot drinks as a whole though I will drink herbal tea now and then).

I mostly hang out on Instagram and Facebook. Those links are on my About page, as are links to follow me on BookBub or Amazon if that’s your thing.

I do some signings in Australia, so either follow me on my socials or sign up to my newsletter to find out more about those. None planned in 2026 though.

 I read a lot because the bookworm life is for me. I like most fibre arts like cross stitch/embroidery, crochet, knitting, sewing. I am the granddaugher of a baker and I love to bake. I manage to keep some plants alive and I like to walk and swim when I am being exercise-y. I’m also fond of TV, movies and musicals.

I’m an Aussie and while I manage to write my books in US english, the Aussie/UK spellings tend to slip out when I’m writing here or online.

I draft in Scrivener or dictate and dump that into Scrivener. Scrivener makes it very easy to move things around which is handy when you write out of order like me. Once I get into serious having to hand the book over to an editor mode, I move to Word. I format my books in Vellum.

Other than that I make mood boards (on Pinterest) for my series and make playlists. Though often my brain gets obsessed with one song for a book and I end up listening to it many many times. Which borks my Spotify stats most years. There’s a Lorde song that’s still my most listened ever because I listened to it so much writing the Four Arts books that still no other song has come close.

The where is mostly at home with headphones on and no distractions other than you know, the pull of the internet and frequent nagging from the cats.

The how varies a bit from book to book but I write a first draft that is messy and very ‘talking heads’ with lots of dialogue and not a lot of everything else that makes up a book. I either write at a computer or dictate to try and save my hands. When I get stuck I will see if I can skip ahead to another scene that I can “see” in my head, so I often write out of order and have to put pieces together. 

Asking me to choose a favourite book is like asking me to choose a favourite shade of blue…impossible!
Here’s a sampling of my favourites:

• Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
• A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
• No Place Like Home by Barbara Samuel
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Gate To Women’s Country by Sheri S.Tepper
• Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Hands of The Emperor by Victoria Goddard
• Outlander/Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
• The Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott
• Pretty Face by Lucy Parker
• The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
• Nettle & Bones by T. Kingfisher
• The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
• Bride by Ali Hazelwood
• Of Knives and Nightblooms by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Wolf Song by T.J. Klune
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
• This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

Again, these are a random sampling…

• • Buffy
  • Firefly
  • Justified
  • The West Wing
  • QI
  • The Vicar of Dibley
  • Miranda
  • Grey’s Anatomy
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
  • Gilmore Girls
  • Doctor Who/Torchwood
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Glee
  • Sherlock
  • Bridgerton
  • Smash
  • Miranda
  • Schitt’s Creek
  • The Great British Bake Off
  • Taskmaster
  • Ted Lasso
  • Rivals
  • Outlander

Some favourite movies

• Pirates of the†Caribbean
• Sherlock Holmes (the Robert Downey Jr one)
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Notting Hill
• Catch and Release
• The Abyss
• The original Star Wars films
• Serenity
• The Cutting Edge
• Iron Man
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Lion King
• Casino Royale
• How to Train Your Dragon
• The King’s Speech
• Walk The Line
• The Avengers
• Rush
• Thor 2
• Big Hero Six
• Stage Beauty
• Mamma Mia
• Bull Durham
• Field of Dreams
• Eurovision: The story of Fire Saga
• The Martian (and probably Project Hail Mary though I’ve only seen it once so far
• Trouble with The Curve
• Spy

Again, these are a random sampling…

• • Taylor Swift
  • Pink
  • Adele
  • Chappelle Road
  • The Chicks
  • Robbie Williams
  • Lorde
  • Chris Isaak
  • Adam Hurst
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • Ben Platt
  • George Michael
  • Melissa Etheridge
  • The Killers
  • Lily Allen
  • Olivia Rodriguez
  • U2
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Indigo Girls
  • Hans Zimmer
  • Bear McCreary
  • Miley Cyrus
  • Lady Gaga