Happy (belated) New Year everyone. I hope 2024 has started well for you. Covid put paid to our first shot at a holiday but we've finally made it to Noumea where it's very hot, very humid and very beautiful. I'll be back in time for our first Thursday Book Club next week. To join us, just click on the link here.

In the meantime, I have a favour to ask of you. Each year, Dymocks asks readers to vote for their favourite books. Entries close next Monday (29 January) and you can choose up to 10 books.

The top 101 books chosen are then kept on the shelves at Dymocks all year. This is a terrific way to keep books in the public eye and enormously helpful for authors like me.

So...if you enjoyed my novels The Watchful Wife and The Deceptions, it would make me very happy if you could take a moment to vote in Dymocks 2024 Top 101 and include them on your list.

To vote for The Watchful Wife

1. click on this Dymocks link: https://www.dymocks.com.au/voting/top-101-voting;

2. scroll until you see the ADD BOOK bar, below the categories section and before the book covers;

3. type in The Watchful Wife, scroll to it then click ADD.

To vote for The Deceptions

1. click on this Dymocks link: com.au/voting/top-101-voting;

2. scroll until you see the ADD BOOK bar, below the categories section and before the book covers;

2. type in The Deceptions, scroll to it then click ADD.

Your book choices don't need to be recent releases, and you don't need to be a Dymocks Booklover member to vote, but if you are, you'll go into the draw to win a $101 gift card.

Thanks so much for your support - I really appreciate it.