I’m currently busy researching and writing a mystery novel set in rural South Australia in 1870. I know the area I’ve set the novel in quite well as I have a little vintage caravan there. I’m reading as much as I can about the period in books, and I’m also finding the Trove website invaluable for the research, but it’s so interesting that I have to be careful to watch the time. The local newspapers of the day are wonderful resources though. Here’s an example of one I read today, which noted the melancholy news of the death of Charles Dickens.

Update: I expect to finish the first draft this weekend!

I’m also (in my quiet moments) putting together a book of my short stories and knitting a Border Collie.