Mad March it surely is...

March, 2026

‘Mad March’ is a common expression in Adelaide because of festivals and car races and various events across the city, but March was also ‘mad’ for us because of our own events that included a book launch, hamstring recovery, involvement in the State election as an early voter electoral officer, rehearsal for a play, radio interviews, a funeral, mentoring writers, preparing a workshop for April, a short holiday to Singapore and a 71st birthday.
 
On the writing front, Richard Miles’ historical account of the South Australia Police Mounted Cadre, Mounted, which we published under Millswood Books in November last year, was launched by the State Governor at the Gepps Cross Police Operations Centre on March 11. That sees the culmination of several years’ research and writing to bring the book into being and the event was a great success. Congratulations to Richard for the outstanding work.
 
I’m currently running a final edit across a new Science Fiction novel, Mika, which we plan to release in May. A draft front cover is included in this post. I’m also concurrently continuing to develop a new fantasy trilogy. Two books are written and I’m halfway through the third.
 
Coming up in a week on April 11th at the Estonian House, 200 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide from 11am-4pm is the Indie Verse Author event. The event showcases more than thirty of Adelaide’s independently-publishing authors including Portia Stanton-Noble, Trent Moullae, M H Salter, Jordan Hawkey, Dr Samantha Baddams, Serena Knights, Lilly Barrett and Neil Mackenzie to name a handful. I am running a 90 minute workshop in the afternoon focussing on how to self-publish as part of the activities.
 
And to scratch a personal itch, I will be back on stage in the beginning of May at the Hopgood Theatre playing an oncology professor in the play, Wit, directed by Harry Dewar. More of that in the April blog.

​Happy Easter.