by Susan Jagannath | Dec 31, 2021 | Bestsellers, Sticky, Walking, Writing
Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest Yes, I’m tired of those too.. Not a good look for “Happy New Year”? maybe, but I have something much better. This year, with all the lack of travel, and anxiety over the what-seems-a-never-ending-plague, I turned...
by Susan Jagannath | Dec 20, 2021 | Adventures, Christmas, Food, Sticky
The Stories behind the Christmas treats Christmas is a time for family, both the one you are born into and the ones you choose. Christmas at our house is a time of giving thanks, plenty, togetherness and love, and in earlier days, hordes of visitors. From mid morning...
by Susan Jagannath | Dec 20, 2021 | Adventures, Christmas, Sticky
Christmas is perilously close, and I have been seriously remiss in not blogging or mailing much – mostly because, it’s that time of the year, to be giving and not selling. I had a rethink about my online presence, and this year, what I did was create an...
by Susan Jagannath | Nov 24, 2021 | Adventures, Writing
As a writer, your mental health is crucial – and yet it is so counterintuitive. You imagine that to be a writer you need to be chained to your desk, but nothing is further from the truth.Physical activity is vital for your mental health and for the brilliance of your...
by Susan Jagannath | Nov 6, 2021 | Adventures, Bestsellers, Sticky, Writing
It’s summer breaking in here in Australia, and in between the thunderstorms, and sudden drenching downpours, there is magnificent sunshine that draws us to the seaside or as we say in Queensland, to “the coast”. In this case it was the Gold Coast,...
by Susan Jagannath | Nov 3, 2021 | Adventures, Bestsellers, Himalayan Challenge, Self-publishing, Singalilla Trek, Sticky, Walks
If it’s November, it has to be Divali, unless of course Divali came earlier and arrived in October. But this year it’s in November, soon after Halloween. I have to confess, I prefer the light of Divali over the darkness of Halloween. Divali is the Festival...
by Susan Jagannath | Oct 12, 2021 | Adventures, Sticky, Walking, Walks, Writing
What do you do when you can’t really do any through-hikes? Or when summer is coming in too fast, and spring is an all too brief a moment? And you realise that it is October and you haven’t hiked or travelled for a whole year. No point crying – what I...
by Susan Jagannath | Sep 25, 2021 | Adventures, Bestsellers, Camino, Himalayan Challenge, Self-publishing, Sticky, Valley of the Flowers, Walks, Writing
Transcript Why Conferences are Great and not so great Hello and welcome to this replay of the talk which I gave at the Logan Writers Conference a couple of weeks ago. We had a few technical glitches preventing a livestream. And quite a few of you have asked for the...
by Susan Jagannath | Sep 15, 2021 | Adventures, Bestsellers, Travel, Writing
WTF – not it’s not a rude saying and I have not been overcome by the need to swear in writing at least – in real life it may or may not be a different matter altogether. There was a WTF in my presentation – much to the delight of the high...
by Susan Jagannath | Sep 9, 2021 | Adventures, Bestsellers, Camino, Spain, Walking, Walks, Writing
Countdown Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Join the Festival Transcript Prelude to the Writer’s Festival It is nearly here. What is at this time, I should actually be out in the forest walking about and showing your lives from the forest. But you know...
