Patricia Leslie

It's late Saturday and I am starting my evening with this blog post followed by a walk in the wind hoping for inspiration for my short story. I have it all, I just can't seem to connect properly with the characters. Some exercise and weather seems in order. I'll spend the rest of the evening writing and editing. My new novel, A Single Light, is due out in a few short weeks and I have 200 odd pages worth of edits to go through. The, yet to be titled, short story is about half

I’ve just read an article about the short and long term marketing advantages/disadvantages of social media: Playing The Long Game In Self Publishing. Being very much a short term strategy, social media can take up a lot of good writing time. I knew that, but if you’re not active then you’re not seen. This is still true, but the level of activity is what needs to be assessed. Is it worth constant updates when those updates have a shelf life of only a few hours (or minutes in t

After spending nearly a week at home with a potent strain of the common cold, I am finally coming out of the other end of that particularly icky tunnel and find I have enough brain cells in action to continue updating my website. I've added a mailing list subscription form this week in order to share all the exciting and never ending updates and other news with loyal fans (loyal fans should note that I am naturally of a sarcastic bent...). Seeing how I have a new novel due fo

Well, it's a start anyway. Here's some video of my first ever speaking engagement. Tracy Joyce, Sue Parritt and I were attending the Sydney Book Expo in August so when the lovely Michelle (our publisher), asked if we'd like to form a panel, we all thought, why not? I can't remember what we were meant to talk about and our Expo supplied panel moderator didn't show up, so we spent 40-odd minutes talking about our writing and research processes, and how we each experienced the p

Judging by how quiet I've been on social media lately, you'd be forgiven for thinking I've disappeared in a giant sink hole off the East Coast of Australia! Much better than that, I've been touring Vietnam with Wendy Wu Tours (and my husband). We had a wonderful time with 23 other Australian and 5 British travellers walking around and exploring the main touristy sites starting in Ho Chi Minh City and finishing in Hanoi. Loved every hot, sweaty minute of it! But I'm home now,