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Odd Writers #9: Balzac’s Fuel for Thought

Want to be a prolific author? Worried you’re not writing enough? It might depend on how many cups of coffee you’re prepared to drink! 😳

19th century, author, caffeine, coffee, french, fuel, habit, history, honore de balzac, Odd Writers, weird, Writing

Odd Writers #8: Hemingway the Crazy Cat Lady

In which we find out why there are so many Six-Toed Kitties in Key West

author, cat-lover, cats, florida, habits, hemingway, macho, odd, polydactyl, writer, Writing

It’s a Wrap! Merry Christmas from Bird and Me

In which Bird ‘helps’ me wrap presents for Christmas. Errm… thanks Bird :-/

author, baby bird, bird, christmas, creative writing, jo danilo, starling, tame, writer

Any Ideas What This Might Be…?

In which Jo receives a mysterious photo from her friend and has no idea what it is…

author, bird, fiction, garden, ghost, harry potter, mystery, new Zealand, patronus, photo, photograph, spooky, story

The Blank Pages of 2020

A little message for the New Year ahead …. Happy New Year! Make every day count xxx Video adapted from … More

2020, author, blank pages, book, inspiration, jo danilo, new year, Writing

A Failed Experiment and (Almost) Another Cat

So, I’ve been experimenting because there was an expanse of shiny whiteness on my office wall with scribbles on it like ‘Get milk’, ‘Weed the garden (again)’ and ‘***Don’t rescue another cat; you have enough now***’.

author, cats, Foxfires, jo danilo, notebook, novel, planning, plotting, rescue, whiteboard

Flambards by K.M Peyton

Flambards taught me, like no other books I read in my childhood, that people and relationships are complicated things…

author, Books, childrens, favourite, first world war, flambards, history, horses, K M Peyton, Meg Rosoff, series

Those Precious Good Reviews

Writers crave good reviews even more than they crave chocolate cake or a really fantastic pen. This is the first one I got, dug up from the archives…

article, author, blackwood, book, fiction, good, jo danilo, journalist, Reviews, young adult

The Odd Disappearance of Violet D’Ath and New Zealand’s First Gothic Novel

Mysterious Violet D’Ath, if you were ever truly flesh and blood, I hereby vow to hunt down you and your beautiful book!

author, first, gothic novel, literature, missing book, mystery, new Zealand, the ice station, violet d'ath, writer
My computer doesn't know who I am

Unknown

In which Jo is feeling distinctly unloved after a snub from her favourite machine.

author, computer, jo danilo, odd bit of writing, unknown

Jo’s Books

Foxfires

11:42 pm

The Curtain Twitcher’s Handbook

Blackwood

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