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My writing started in earnest
in 1994 when I attended a creative writing course, and with beginners-luck, had a junior fiction book Gus, Sore Feet –
No Collar, published in 1995 by Rawlhouse in Perth.
It tells the tale of a dog abandoned
in the Australian bush and was beautifully illustrated by Heather Mast.
"Finally
the car disappeared from view, behind it the dust slowly settled, and the long lonely road was empty once more -- except for the dog who ran on and on.
At last Gus
could run no more: he dropped to the ground: his feet were scorched: his legs like jelly and his belly burned on the hot gravel.
His breath came in ragged gasps as he tried to make sense of what had happened."
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The storyof Gus is fiction, but for real life animal stories, check out the Fin, Fur and Feather
page.
And enjoy the photos of the creatures who have crossed my path.
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Favourite Authors
In no particular order:
Lynda La Plante
Val McDermid
Robert Goddard
Felicity Young
Michael Dobbs
Sanchona
Minette Walters
Maeve Binchey
Ian Rankin
and a host of others too many to mention.
My real love is writing
crime fiction novels. You'll find a short excerpt of 'Ferryman,' a novel set in Cornwall in the 1970s, if you click the link below.
Ferryman
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Newly Released!
And the Devil Laughed
(Short listed for Genre Fiction
Award by New Holland and NSW
Writers’ Centre 2007)
Set on the Parramatta River in NSW. Australian undercover cop, Hannah Ford, eager to return to work after stress leave,
takes on a drug surveillance job in Draper’s Wharf. But when she arrives, the town is in shock after the rape and murder
of its local barmaid. Hannah, a rape survivor with a career to salvage,
needs to prove she can hack it.
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Published by New Generation Publishing -
Youwriteon
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Next
in the pipeline:
REDBACK
Those who harm it — die, goes the legend of the rare and
beautiful Redback Opal. But Pug believes her husband’s brutal murder has more to do with the slaughtered woman in his
arms than the curse of any stone. When, one of the robbers double-crosses the others, they all lose their prize. The villains
suspect Pug knows the whereabouts of the precious gem.
Pug leaves death and bankruptcy behind her, takes her dog, and sails away in the only remaining
possession she has left, her yacht. But she sails straight into trouble as she becomes aware of more than one stalker watching
her every move. With the body count growing, can DI Ed Buchanan and Sergeant Kathryn Sinclair nail the real villains before
Pug becomes the Redback Opal’s next victim?
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REDBACK is my latest crime novel.
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Stolen
A million pound gem goes missing in a violent heist. The
body count grows and the only person to
know its secret cache is murdered. The hunt for the Redback Opal is on.
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| The yardarm at Draper's Wharf |
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| And the Devil Laughed |
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Excerpt
The moon looked high
and lonely. Hannah’s glance swept the navy blue canopy, pausing to locate the Southern Cross. Lower down, against the
loom of the distant Sydney lights, she could make out the whole of the wharf, the cross trees of the yardarm on the jetty.
The night felt eerily quiet, hardly a ruffle of wind to disturb the rigging on the moored boats; nor any sound of traffic
on the river or on the road below.
It was as though the world was holding its breath, waiting for something to break.
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http://www.myspace.com/cazutt
The early chapters of And the Devil
Laughes along with Ferryman are showcased on the YouWriteOn.com site under Best Sellers title
-- genre/crime.
If you would like to see your book
there, you'll find their address and details under More Favourite Links.
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