The Personal Story behind The Ozone Café

The novel's setting is my hometown Ettalong Beach. I have included in the narrative certain landmarks, the historical cafe itself, the waterways are known as Broken Bay with Lion Island, Anderson's Boatshed, the bay's channel, oysters, prawning and fishing in the area. The book's timeline is the fifties & sixties when the author (also my characters) enjoyed the music of the times. View this post on Instagram A post shared by...

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The Ozone Cafe - OUT NOW! - in Australia on Amazon.com.au

 The Ozone Café, a historical novel with three separate owners, is about the café’s demise through council corruption.Vincenzo Polamo, a Calabrian, builds the Ozone Café with his builder-brother in 1957 in fictional Satara Bay. He meets three children, Winifred, Casey, and Nicolas, creating a seascape mural on a café wall that includes them. The café changes from Italian to Australian cuisine....

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MY EXPERIENCE WITH KIRKUS REVIEWS - Did not have a pleasant experience

This post is mainly to alert Australian Authors about my UNPLEASANT experiences to attract a local, US or international readership.You may have seen the Australian eBay advertisement on TV called eBay Tuesday where customers who do not use eBay are denigrated. The actor’s spiel is a mantra called, RIPPED OFF, ROZ.  Let me tell you if I were to do an advertisement on KIRKUS REVIEWS I...

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The Tattooed City - a WIP (3rd) novel by Helen Hagemann

*WIP NEW FICTION*  I have commenced a new novel - this time it is Domestic- Noir/Crime fiction.  My working title is The Tattooed City and I have just registered the title on Instagram.NOVEL OUTLINE Premise: Clare is devastated after losing her husband, hitting his head on a rock at the beach, concussed and ultimately dies from bleeding on the brain, leaving her with four young children...

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CUPS - A Prose Poem

 Cups   Beside the plastic one by one, in order of country, are the cups.  There have been more cups ruined emptying the dishwasher. Right now, the quantity of cups keeps increasing, squashed in at the back of the cupboard. They’re like friends visiting one another. The Guernica cup, a Picasso masterpiece from Madrid abuts the English Wren from Shrewsbury.  Black as a pint of Guinness,...

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