What just happened?

It seems I've been absent for a while...

I wish I could tell you I had merely been kidnapped by aliens and am now back after 18month learning their ways, but sadly it was just disaster that beamed me up for a time.  I see that the the last time I posted, I was about to embark on a tour of America with 3 other crime writers.  That happened and was outrageously amazing... and I will post some about it in retrospect now that I'm back (to posting - not Australia... we've been back in the country for a fair while now).

We returned to find the entire East Coast of Australia was on fire, and the Prime Minister was in Hawaii. It was about a month later that the fires reached my hometown.  Batlow was declared "undefendable" and I evacuated leaving my husband and son behind to fight the inferno with the volunteer Rural Fire Service.  Our home was engulfed and the since then we've been rebuilidng and replanting.  I shall also post about that now that the immediate emergency is over.

And then there were hailstorms and floods which took finally dropped a lot of fire-damaged trees... across roads, rooftops and fences.  That too will be covered in retrospective posts.

And then of course there was... is the pandemic.  

I think I've been waiting for the punches to abate before I got back to a normal routine - updating websites, posting, life in general.  But I've decided now that waiting for calm is a fool's errand.  And so I promise I shall snatch time to exist here and to make the website vaguely current.  I might even redecorate...

Anyway, I know I'm not the only person in the world who was left reeling by 2020, and that many of you have endured much, much, more than we've had to.  I hope you're all okay, and that you can see light at the end of the tunnel.

Sulari xx