The Story Behind My Books

January 25, 2010
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Hi I’m Nicole Alexander. If you’re visiting me for the first time, let me tell you a little about myself. I’m a writer and fourth generation grazier working on my family property which is located 110 km north west of Moree and 100 km west of Goondiwindi near the NSW QLD border. Our property was selected [...]

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Why the Germans love Australian outback novels

January 26, 2012

Selling rights overseas is an exciting process. Writers yearn for that extra exposure and live in the hope that sales into one territory may hopefully lead to others elsewhere. It doesn’t always happen of course especially in the financial age we currently live in. However if you write rural literature in Australia you can pretty [...]

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Pearl Harbour – A lesson in humanity

January 25, 2012

I remember the movie Pearl Harbour for the great soundtrack, special effects and tumultuous air attack. What I didn’t expect on visiting this historic site was the sense of serenity which pervades every inch of the area; despite the throng of visitors. Tour buses unload with military precision at the site which is managed by [...]

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The Bush Blog

January 23, 2012

We’ve been trying to get the lambs in to shear them since before Christmas. Moved to different paddocks as the flood water encroached before christmas and then caught in small mobs while cut off from the yards, they have of course ended up with worms (yep it’s the sheep equivilant). My sister Brooke and Dad went [...]

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VBlogging – Bringing the Bush to your lounge room.

January 22, 2012

Well there are only a few more sleeps until Australia Day and then the year will start in earnest. What a busy one it promises to be. This year I’ll be escaping from the written word occassionally and entering into the world of video blogging (VBlogs as they’re called). You can check out my first for [...]

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‘Stirring the possum; Mayan style’.

January 19, 2012

There’s been more hype about December 21, 2012 than there was about the Y2K scare at the turn of the century. Remember all the dramas? Computers would blow up affecting everything from skyscraper elevators to microwaves. Well I can’t say we had too many problems up here in sunny Boomi. As a precaution I pulled the power [...]

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Loretta Hill & The girl in steel-capped boots.

January 17, 2012

A big hello to my first guest blogger for the year! Loretta Hill was born in Perth, WA and although a lover of writing from a young age she put her dream on hold to pursue a less risky career in engineering. Blessed with her father’s knack for science, she graduated from the University of Western Australia [...]

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Aloha from Hawaii

January 16, 2012

From one water view to another. I’ve just experienced the extremes of watery living; from the recent flood waters which assailed us from the end of November last year through to the New Year and the lulling ocean off Waikiki, Honolulu. Visiting Honolulu, Hawaii for my brother’s wedding was an experience. It’s skyscraper city; noisy (the surf [...]

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New Years Eve

December 30, 2011

New Year’s Eve – they can be quiet at home occassions or loud, fire cracker enthused celebrations. For the much hyped millenium there was a black tie bash by the river with fireworks in our part of the world. Since then drought and now floods have dampened a little of the enthusiasm for the night. You’re more [...]

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Size doesn’t matter…. at Christmas.

December 23, 2011

With our part of the world having officially been declared a natural disaster area a few weeks back I’ll be glad to see the end of 2011. At the risk of putting everyone off their prawns I’ve avoided ‘sharing’ all of our watery woes, however over the last couple pf weeks we actually did have [...]

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Birthing babies and books

December 19, 2011

Recently my best friend gave birth to her third child, a handsome son named Harry. With a ten and twelve year old already in the fold Harry has proved a delight, although I’m sure for Skye there have been some old skills that quickly needed to be brushed up on. Skye and I have been [...]

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Gifts for the men in our lives..

With Christmas only a handful of sleeps away I’m faced with the yearly connundrum of what to buy for the men in my life. Everyone usually has one of the following to consider: Fathers, brothers, brothers-in-law, partners, husbands, in-laws, the ‘step’ variety and if you’re extremely fortunate a grandfather; buying for men can be difficult particularly [...]

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Yep, they’re my vegies bobbing down the Boomi River.

December 18, 2011

Friday was my window for shopping! What a hectic day. I had a deadline of 6pm to get back into my place as floodwater still abounds and night crossings are dangerous. Having been over at the main homestead for nearly three weeks I was really looking forward to getting home. The trouble with heading over the [...]

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Caroline Overington answers 5 quick questions.

December 14, 2011

Welcome to Caroline Overington. I had the pleasure of meeting Caroline at the Australian Book Industry Awards dinner in Melbourne last July although having always been a bit of a newspaper fiend I was well aware of her journalistic contributions and non-fiction works. I’m delighted that Caroline joins me today to answer five quick questions. [...]

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All I need is a knight! I have the moat.

December 11, 2011

Well if anyone had told me a month ago that I’d be hitting day 9 of being ‘home alone’ on the property I wouldn’t have believed them. However here I am with more rain over the weekend and yet another run down the Whalan Creek the lead of which should reach us tomorrow. David of course [...]

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