Patricia Leslie

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Toolbox: tip #8 Instagram for Writers Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Crossing the Line Book 2 Image source: Pixabay / congerdesign Book two of Crossing the Line is coming along at a cracking pace with lots of travelling around the country, more magic, even more mayhem and as much insight into Australian social history as I can pull together. One of the reasons I became a

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Toolbox: tip #7 Books on Writing Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: History Repeats - The Historical Novel Society Australasia Conference I do a lot of social media work: for my writing, for my day job, and now, for the Historical Novel Society Australasia, in particular their upcoming conference. #HNSA2019 is the official hashtag and if you search on Facebook or Twitter, you

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Toolbox: tip #6 The Creative Penn Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Wandering around Ballarat. I've just spent a weekend wandering around Ballarat taking photos of old buildings, locomotives, and exploring the surrounding area: Clunes, Hepburn Springs, and Daylesford. Here's what I've learned: Ballarat is a large regional city filled with heritage buildings, loads of cafes,

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Tool Box: tip #5 Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Researching steam train travel (it was a lot of fun!) Over the past couple of weeks, I've been writing train travel scenes. Easy. Right? Put the scenes into the correct context - travelling from Sydney to Melbourne in 1882, and it's not quite as easy as I imagined. I prefer my characters to mo