It’s a big day in the Osborn house. My poor father is having a fit - walking around in his gum boots, scratching his head, grabbing at his dairy farmer’s towelling hat as it goes to fall off his noggin.

One of my children's all time favourite smoko's would have to be vanilla balls, or rum ball minus the rum.

Hi and thank you for agreeing to come to morning tea or ‘smoko’ with me! It’s really very kind of you to consider joining in, as I’m hoping that this is another method by which we can get all our readers to know more about all our authors!

We had some wonderful entries for the Aussie Author Month giveaway where we asked you to tell us about your favourite characters in my book.

Lidya Yulianti who loved pens as a teenager.

Hi and thank you for agreeing to come to morning tea or ‘smoko’ with me! It’s really very kind of you to consider joining in, as I’m hoping that this is another method by which we can get all our readers to know more about all our authors!

It's April, which means AUSSIE AUTHOR MONTH so what better time to do a giveaway for fans and readers of Rural Romance style books.

Mrs Poynton, who just LOVED Bella's Run and came to buy Hope's Road.

Look what I found on Thursday!!!

Picture it - two women generally very practical in mind and nature - except when it comes to motors.

The morning started early as we had a 6 hour drive towards Cooma ahead of us. Yes, we were heading towards home

Stage 2 of the book tour saw my wonderful friend Andrea and I in Dubbo.

The first stage of this book tour has been great fun, and it's just wonderful to get a chance to meet all you lovely readers, booksellers and librarians.

I should come up with a nifty, clever little title for this blog but it's been a long tour and I think I left the clever title thinking up bit of my brain back in Shepparton with my banner....

Just a quick note, with apologies but tonight's talk and signing at Pages of Life in Cooma has had to be cancelled due to the illness of our lovely hostess at the bookshop.

Actually as I post this I'm in NSW, but when I dreamed up this blog posting, I was heading there... I think.

Today, the stunning town of Bright was the destination.

Random House have posted the first chapter of Hope's Road, free for you to read on Scribd.