Sophie comes visiting

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I had the pleasure of having my publisher Sophie Hamley spend a few days in Katherine with me over the Katherine Show.  My memoir remains as the No 1 bestseller for Australian memoir for Hachette Australia and has been sitting in the Top 10 for memoir on Booktopia. Read the first chapter of “A Sunburnt ... Read More »

Its Funtime in Katherine

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Life has been crazy over the past weeks with me being involved in a dance routine with a group of friends, for the Katherine Dance Massive celebration on Territory Day.  I think that we, ‘The KTown Kougaz’ stole the show with a funky routine, blue wigs and silver sequin outfits, sharing stage with the local Hip ... Read More »

How do I write

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People ask me how and where do I write? As a writer of Memoir, I spend a lot of time thinking about my stories,  trying to recall times, years,  peoples names, the weather, the situation, social occasions, the environment and the landscape.  Though I haven’t kept diaries I have a large collection of paper clippings, ... Read More »

Timber Creek

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Life takes all sorts of twists and turns. My dream run with my writing continues as I have been offered a contract to write a second book, all be it that the first one took me 14 years to complete, I now have to have an 80,000 word draft in by 1st of October!  MMMMmmmm -it is going… Read More »
Anna Priore & Toni Tapp Coutts

Catch up with Toni

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It is about 12 weeks since A Sunburnt Childhood hit the stands and it has been a whirlwind of interviews, book launches and bookshop signings and the development of this website. The book reached # 3 in Dymocks Memoir in the second week and was Hachette Australia #1 for a couple of weeks. It reached… Read More »