A woman’s work is never done. Hopefully!
Fancy seeing you here!
Well hello and thank you again for dropping in to see me. I’m so very excited to be sharing news about Happy Hour alongside other new writing and publishing bits and bobs. If you’re at all interested in the behind-the-scenes of the book world, you might find this fun. I love having a stickybeak into the way other people’s creative projects come to life so I am hoping others (YOU?) feel the same. Do stay a while and look around. Maybe one day you’ll even buy one of my books. Stranger things have happened after all. - JAQ B
Me, me, me …
I was born in Melbourne and, in this post-pandemic, travel-restricted world, I will most likely die there. Not the worse thing to be fair.
My home is full of treasured items, including an Irish dancing costume and a Scottish whisky collection.
As a journalism graduate from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, my work has taken me from the world of pop divas and jewellery designers to light commercial vehicles and Ugandan IDP camps.
In 2015 I was awarded a Glenfern Fellowship and in 2016 my work, Trouble Sleeping, received a Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
Happy Hour is my debut novel.
Talking books while sipping gin
Welcome to a little chat with dear friend and respected journalist Kerrie O’Brien as we talk about my new Plumm gin glasses, how and why I wrote Happy Hour and which characters readers will identify with the most.
(Thank you to Better Reading for this wonderful opportunity, recorded as a Facebook Live in September 2021.)
