HeyJaredStories from Australia - Nicole Alexander
Internationally published, Nicole Alexander shares stories on outback life, Australian history, and her writing life.
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Growing up in the outback. (opens the original)
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I grew up with the sky for a ceiling and a backyard bounded only by the horizon. And along with my brothers and sister, we swam in the creek, fished for yabbies, rode motorbikes and horses and built go-carts, crashing them magnificently racing each other down the side of the dam. We also had to be edumacated which was quite the imposition when it was such fun outdoors. Ever the knowledgeable primary schoolers my older brother and I would discuss the merits of education. Was there really any poin
Where has she been ... (opens the original)
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Sometimes life gets messy, but rather than overcomplicating things with a long winded explanation of the pitfalls and pleasures of life, of which my writing is a part, not the whole, I’ll just say that I’ve had my fingers in a few pies. That’s my excuse for not posting for a w-h-i-l-e. Now I’m back with news of my new novel, The Desert People, which will be published March 2026. The manuscript has only just come through the edit ringer or should I say mangler. A mangle was an old-fashioned machi
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