Organizing my first ever professional photo shoot (apart from the photos I had done for grad haha). Totally stoked. One of the shots is for the authors bio page and the rest are for the press pack and to flatter my own ego hahah. Its gonna be wicked

• To the wonderful people who individually contributed to the book, from my wonderful editor Gloria Webb who without her this book would be completely illegible and for the endless advice you gave me and to the Bookpal team who does marvellous work. Thank you.
•  To my parents. Thanks to Dad for the typewriter you bought me that started me writing seriously and the countless pieces of advice (some useful) you gave me and mum for grounding me when half the time my head was so far in the clouds Air Traffic Control had to announce the presence of my ego of passing jumbo jets.
• To my friends who had to listen to me ramble about mermaids and to the few who inspired the characters. To Disco, Bullets, Ringleader, Kathy, D’Arcy, Sam, David and anyone else who I may have missed. Thank you, you have every right to hate me and run screaming but you haven’t. Yet…
• To Short Stack, yes the band… whose music rescued this book when I was suffering from mindless writers block, inspired parts of it and some mornings simply gave me the will to get up and keep fighting. To most you may be three hooligans from the Central Coast who were once a band but to me (and a lot of other people) you three will always mean much more than that. Once you go Stack you never go back. Thank you.

·         And to you, the person who has picked up this book and decided to read it. Without you this wouldn’t be possible. You possibly get the biggest Thank you of all. And hugs. And kisses. And…ok this is getting weird so I will go…

Sound good?

Ok so my publisher has got back to me and we are setting a date so I can go down and we can meet and discuss it all etc

EXCITED!!

Oh and in my Readers Digest book of facts it says how the myth started because of dugong/manatee sightings. 

Now I have two problems with this. The first time mermaids appear in secular history is in Babylon and there aint no dugongs in Babylon and second Manatees appear only around the top end of Australia and Manatees appear only in waters around Florida etc. So how, may I ask does every coastal continent known to man have its own version of mermaids but supposedly the legend started from these two creatures? And bear in mind too that USA was colonized until the pilgrims and Australia discovered after that but mermaid legends have been floating (bad pun, sorry) for much much longer than that??

I just realized something

I collect a lot of book about mythology, unsolved wonders of the world, mysteries unexplained and things like that. And in not one of them do they mention mermaids. They mention the Loch Ness monster, the lake Ogopogo monster, the lake Okanagan monster and bunyips but no mermaids. 

My conculsion?

They are real….