SHE CHOSE HOPE

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by Steve Heron OAM “Hope is wings in the wind.” In my third novel of the Bayside Blues series, Busted Curse, (yet to be published), a group of friends discover a box in a secret cellar of an old (haunted) house they are exploring. Before opening the box, Maddy jokingly says that the box might contain a curse like Pandora’s...Read More

One Thousand Snapshots Latest Review

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Reviewed by Dannielle Viera Appearing in Buzzwords Magazine Buzzwords Book Reviews 10 Dec 2022 http://www.buzzwordsmagazine.com/search/label/One%20Thousand%20Snapshots Haunted by a car accident that killed her father four years earlier, Maddy is determined to capture every important part of her life through the lens of her Instamatic camera. But photos are static, and life is not. Changes wrought by puberty, her mother’s new...Read More

A Children’s Book is a Compass

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By Steve Heron OAM No one is told any story but their own. –from the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. When I look back at the books I loved as a child, one that stands out is “Tootle”, a Little Golden Book. I wasn’t sure why it stood out until I reread it for the...Read More

Words in The Valley Readers and Writers Festival

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Welcome to the Words in the Valley Festival 2021, a four-day celebration of literature. While the festival has been postponed due to Covid-19, the quality remains assured. We are very proud to deliver a writers’ festival with a terrific line-up of international writers that all live locally within Western Australia The Words in the Valley festival is an event that...Read More

MAXIMUS – FAITHFULLY RECREATING THE EXPERIENCE OF EARLY ADOLESCENCE

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by Steve Heron OAM Maximus, middle-grade novel has sound psychological concepts underpinning the narrative and an informed social and emotional wellbeing context. Maximus has been referred to as a book about bullying. It is interesting that the word ‘bully’ appears only once in the story when Mitch calls his dad a bully when he yells at his little sister Megan....Read More