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S is for Superhero and B is for Bob McLeod

Popular children’s author and comic book illustrator, Bob McLeod, chats with Australian Women Online. Bob McLeod has been doing something super. Something that is the envy of kids and adults everywhere. Something most people wouldn’t even view as ‘work’. Bob has been creating superheroes. Bob, who lives in Pennsylvania in the United States with his…Read More


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Book of the Month: Hopetoun Wives by Fran Cusworth

For her second novel, Melbourne based author Fran Cusworth revisited the year she followed her husband to a mining town on the south west coast of Australia. Although a work of fiction, the story of three very different women who follow their husbands to Hopetoun, was inspired by Cusworth’s personal experience of a small community…Read More


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Lisa Heidke delivers MummyLit at its best with Lucy Springer

Book of the Month: February 2009 The public’s appetite for ChicLit may have peaked somewhere around 2004, but the genre that gave us the flawed but much loved heroine of the 1990′s, continues to influence the work of both new and established authors of popular fiction. In her debut novel, Australia’s Lisa Heidke (pictured) serves up…Read More


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Comedian Denise Scott reflects on her first gig as an author

Denise Scott (pictured) is a well-loved Melbourne based stand-up comedian, actor and radio and TV personality. She has appeared regularly on TV shows such as Full Frontal, The Today Show and The Big Gig, and was the breakfast host at Melbourne radio station Vega FM for 3 years and is currently a regular on Spicks+Specks…Read More


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The Coffee Oracle by Stacey Demarco

An ancient tradition for today’s café culture. Seeking wise advice is now as easy as ordering your daily cup of coffee! There are moments in everyone’s life when we need some wise counsel and to tap into our intuition for guidance. The Coffee Oracle shows how the simple everyday practice of drinking coffee can help…Read More


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International Success for Australian Author Kate Morton

KATE MORTON (pictured) made headlines in 2006 when the advance rights sales to her debut novel, The Shifting Fog, published in the UK as The House at Riverton, hit the million-dollar mark. Last month Kate released her second novel, The Forgotten Garden, an even more intricate tale of suspense involving a beautiful Victorian authoress, dark…Read More


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Piecing life together after childhood sexual abuse

Singer, songwriter, public speaker, business owner and author, Monique Lisbon was twenty years old when her life fell apart. After years of being scared silent, Monique was able to admit to herself and to others that she had been sexually abused by her father and thus, began a long and often painful journey to heal.…Read More


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Shivani: business coach, author and tv presenter

More than four hundred thousand people tuned in each week to watch Shivani Gupta (pictured) dispense her own unique brand of business coaching on Risking It All, the Australian version of the popular UK TV series that explores what it’s really like setting up your own business. Released to coincide with Risking It All, Shivani’s…Read More


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‘The Woodcutter’s Wife: A Stepmother’s Tale’ by Dolla S. Merrillees

Book of the Month: May 2008 Lets face it, in the minds of millions of children, stepmothers are about as popular as broccoli and visits to the dentist. Always cast as the villain In fairy tales, the stepmother in reality faces an uphill battle to convince all others she is not the wicked witch of…Read More


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