I’m about 90% done writing my second play. It’s called An Egyptian Treasure.
It’s 1948 and as the year is drawing to a close, Zoe is planning a surprise for Eva. She enlists the help of Elena and together they make one of Zoe’s zaniest ideas come to life. Eva, Zoe, Elena, Henry and Earl are back. It’s a feel good romantic comedy that will just make you smile – it’s all about the love with a dash of sand, sun and madcap Zoe in the land of Milk and Honey.
The play will be performed by the actors at Sherri’s Playhouse. if you enjoyed last year’s performance of A Widgie Knight, you’re going to love this year’s “An Egyptian Treasure” – A Week In The Life of Eva and Zoe!
If you haven’t listened to last year’s play, you’re in luck! You can listen to the play here – it was SO much fun!
I’m quite pleased to announce that Zoe’s Journal: Displaced In The Land of Pharoahs will be the second book in Zoe’s Journal series to be published by AUSXIP Publishing. Date to be announced.
This is Zoe’s Journal from the moment they leave Greece and their journey to Egypt. It’s in 1945 and Eva, Zoe and Henry leave Larissa to take the perilous journey to Crete where the Allies have their command and through Turkey to reach Egypt. In Egypt they find that refugees are streaming into the country to escape the war. This is a story of strength, courage and the will to survive as Zoe recounts the people they meet and the hardships they endure in their search for safety and passage to Australia.
So stayed tuned for more news about this new series. I’m hoping to bridge the gaps between 1944 to 1947.
I’m quite pleased to announce that Zoe’s Journal: Surviving The Peace is the next book to be published by AUSXIP Publishing. Date to be announced.
This is Zoe’s Journal from the moment Larissa was liberated by the British in 1944 to the time Eva, Zoe and Henry left Larissa and headed to Egypt. It was a difficult and dangerous journey. The war on the mainland was over but the Islands were still occupied by the Germans until 1945.
Surviving the Peace would be the first book I’ve written in first person – Zoe’s voice – and it’s a departure from my normal writing style. Do you all like the cover?
So stayed tuned for more news about this new series. I’m hoping to bridge the gaps. between 1944 to 1947.
I’m stoked to announce that my newest coloring book Coloring To Relax Mandalas & Geometric Patterns Volume 2 is now available! It’s got 30 illustrations of various designs.
How does coloring help? Isn’t that just for children? Psychologist Gloria Martinez Ayala recently discussed why it’s so important for adults as well as children. She was interviewed by the Huffington Post where she said: “The relaxation that it provides lowers the activity of the amygdala, a basic part of our brain involved in controlling emotion that is affected by stress.”
So what does that mean? It means by immersing ourselves in one activity that our energies are totally focused, our brains are not focused on the things that stress us out. This is quite true. It does work.
We all lead very busy lives with work commitments, family and health issues. There is so much going on. We neglect the one thing we should not and that is ourselves. We need to MAKE time for ourselves. In between writing fiction, I color my own designs or buy coloring books geared towards adults although the children’s coloring books take me back a few years. It gives me pleasure and hours of fun!
When we were children (and for some of us, that may be some time ago), we found enjoyment in creating art by coloring. We spent many hours hunched over our coloring books with crayons (or pencils and/or markers). We found pleasure in the simple act of coloring in.
What has happened since then? We grew up. We abandoned the simple pleasure of immersing ourselves in our coloring efforts. Life has knocked us around. Okay time to get back to what makes us happy and to forget our troubles, even for a short while.
Break out your favorite coloring pencils/crayons / paints – however you want to do it, do it!
Book Viral has reviewed my latest novel “Nor The Battle To The Strong” – Check it out
The Intertwined Souls Series has come a long way since Brooks first released In The Blood Of The Greeks and her many fans were right to have high expectations of her latest release. Over the course of five previous award-winning LGBT novels, we’ve seen Eva and Zoe grow as she teases out every shadow and nuance of their characters. We’ve been voyeurs to a deeply felt love story that’s been told with an exquisite eye for detail, but none of this quite prepares you for Nor The Battle To The Strong. Writing in a niche genre such as Lesbian Romance whilst garnering broader appeal is never easy and yet this is exactly what Brooks does, delivering a story that is sensuous, intelligent and sophisticated. As with previous releases, she delivers plot complexity in strikingly personal terms, but here she adds another level of poignancy as she highlights the contrasts between who Eva and Zoe are now and the past to which they are again drawn.
Making for a richly observed narrative and another wonderful read in the Intertwined Souls Series, Nor The Battle To The Strong proves an excellent release in the Historical Lesbian Romance sub-genre and is recommended without reservation.
NEW RELEASE: Nor The Battle To The Strong – It’s been a long time in the making but my 6th novel “Nor The Battle To The Strong” has been released on ebook and soon to be in print.
Will Justice For One Have Life Threatening Repercussions For Many?
On the night of November 9, 1938 in Berlin, Germany a teenager’s life was forever changed. Sent to the village of Aiden at the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, body and mind were shattered in the brutal Aiden Research Facility. Eighteen years later, Eva Lambros is no longer a teenager but a wealthy heiress. She is poised and confident with the family she has always wanted but there is one last obstacle she must overcome. Together with her partner, the formidable Zoe Lambros, they travel to Aiden to open a memorial to the hundreds of souls that lost their lives. Aiden left Eva with debilitating mental constraints that have taken years to overcome but is she ready to confront and overcome her greatest fear?
Zoe not only has to contend with Eva’s state of mind, but she is also pulled into a mystery that involves a woman’s search for justice amidst shocking revelations that reaches into the upper echelons of Aiden society.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…
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I’m about 90% done writing my second play. It’s called An Egyptian Treasure.
I’m quite pleased to announce that Zoe’s Journal: Displaced In The Land of Pharoahs will be the second book in Zoe’s Journal series to be published by AUSXIP Publishing. Date to be announced.
I’m quite pleased to announce that Zoe’s Journal: Surviving The Peace is the next book to be published by AUSXIP Publishing. Date to be announced.
I’m stoked to announce that my newest coloring book Coloring To Relax Mandalas & Geometric Patterns Volume 2 is now available! It’s got 30 illustrations of various designs.
Book Viral has reviewed my latest novel “Nor The Battle To The Strong” – Check it out
