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I do a short review of a tea sent to me by fellow Tea Scout, Barbara Cluck. Tea choice: Dépret Superbe, from  Tea Punk Teas. teapunkteas.com

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Those pesky flying monkeys have finally been wrangled and are winging their way to subscriber inboxes.


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I got a message last week, from the organiser of last month’s  FB event, Booklove Tuesday.

Out of the blue. A pleasant surprise.

The event organiser had been contacted by Barbie from Living Arts Canberra, a website with podcasts  and LACE radio station. They offer ‘a voice ( Read more... )

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A big thank you to Book Squirrel for reviewing the first ebook in The Adventures of Viola Stewart series, ‘Three Short Stories’ - with a silver acorn!

“This book presents three Victorian-style short stoeies featuring Viola Stewart at different phases of her life - one as a ( Read more... )

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Sometimes you open your emails and get a pleasant surprise. In this case it was a link to the latest post on the book blog, Suz’s Space.

Suzie is one of my long-term supporters on Patreon. Not only did she write a quick review on my short story collection, With a Twist of the ( Read more... )

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Join me for the FB virtual book launch of The Department of Curiosities,


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“Karen J Carlisle is one of those rare gems who’s storytelling captivated me from the first page and carried me expertly through a marvellous world of mysterious occurrences, secret societies, wondrous devices and characters I both loved and loved to hate.”
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Book Blog Tour Extra
The first Department of Curiosities review is out!

For ‘The Department of Curiosities’, I was determined to get organised. This time I managed to finally send out ARC (Advanced Review Copies) before the official book release date!

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