Joni Page Author
@JoniPageAuthor
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I write positive stories about people asking themselves big questions. I always find the best resolutions. Debut novel coming soon. No DMs please.
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I write in many genres.
My first published novel, now in pre-production, is in the Modern Women’s Fiction genre.
If you follow me here, I’d love to follow you back.
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I’m an author of Modern Women’s Fiction. My first book is in pre-production. If you follow me here, I’ll follow you back.
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Look at these beautiful violets growing self-seeded in the paving.
I don't have the heart to pull them out. They brighten an otherwise unkempt piece of the garden and anyway, the bees like them!
🐝🐝
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These beautiful Lady finger bananas grow well in our yard, within our mediterranean climate here in South Australia.
When they're big enough we cut them down as a bunch & place them in our shade-house to ripen.
Now that's low food miles!
#GardeningTwitter
#GardeningX
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Gardening is a very real outlet for my main character, Candice, in my upcoming novel.
Gardening brings her friendship, insights, and a source of incidental food when her chaotic lifestyle lets her down.
Here's to growing food in small spaces!
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I love photos like this, looking down a path to who-knows-where?
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Onions and leeks, nodding their heads in the breeze in last year's garden.
Those nasturtiums are self-seeded, what a pretty labour-free backdrop!
#GardeningTwitter
#GardeningX
#nature
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It's a beautiful sunny May day here in South Australia, and the bees are loving the basil that has gone to flower in my garden.
❤️🐝🌿
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We often run through the "some varm milk, ovaltine!" speech.
😆
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Shade caused our lemon tree to take on a decided lean. Shade removed, lemon tree is now righting itself with some new growth.
Don't you just love how nature solves its own problems?
And look at the lighting on those beautiful new leaves!
#nature
#GardeningTwitter
#GardeningX
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Often sunny, warm days and cool nights, the occasional rain. We have a mediterranean climate. Climate change has upended that a bit, warmer than usual with less rain.
What is Spring like for you?
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I'm waiting for my second round of beetroot to be ready. No doubt they'll be smaller than the first lot. I haven't peeked under the leaves for ages, so I'm hoping for a nice surprise.🤞
Here's some of the first harvest.
Beetroot from the garden, yum!
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This picture of one of my pak choi plants gone to seed is so cheery. The exquisite yellow and the gorgeous lighting make it positively glow!
#NatureBeauty
#GardeningTwitter
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I've been writing since Grade 4, when Mum taught me how to construct a story for a school essay. I was hooked!
But I never considered writing an entire novel until one day, when the path ahead was uncertain, I asked myself
What is it I would regret not doing in life?
#writing
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Autumn here in Australia.
Such a pretty graphic ❤️🌿
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Time for some Pretty.
This is an old favourite of mine, alyssum. It's like dainty little bunches of flowers for fairies and elves.🍄
This one originally came from heritage seeds and self-seeds itself again year after year. No work required.
Just perfect.
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The 21st of March is World Poetry Day❤️
I find poetry inspirational.
Two of my faves for inspiration are:
Courage & Fear by Michael Popkin
Autobiography in Five Chapters by Portia Nelson
To all poets & to everyone who's been touched by poetry, here's to you!
🏆
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Art, capturing emotion so beautifully, as usual.
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I love Jane's
#RoseWednesday
posts.
This is a beauty ❤️
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Tuesday is Chooseday for my character Katie in my compendium of short stories, coming out later this year. She uses Chooseday to make sure she is on the right track in life.
Here's to
#Chooseday
and whomever you choose to be today! 🙏♥️
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#WorldAutismAwarenessDay
Here's wisdom from Paul Collins in “Not Even Wrong”
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.”
Respect
#neurodivergence
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These pretty gazanias are unfortunately a weed in Australia. They're hardy survivors, growing at the beach.
I was inspired to include them in a short story during one of my beach walks.
It was a breezy brisk day at the beach, but the flowers were cheery!
#beachlife
#writing
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That footage is from the movie Young Frankenstein, one of my favourites!
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Isn't this an amazing looking animal? 😱
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Sunshine on water and a hazy sky.
Who could ask for anything more?
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I felt like it was the time of the week that we needed ducks.
Here's a couple of cuties🦆🦆
#Nature
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Simply gorgeous.
Well done, planet Earth!
The Glacier National Park in Montana, on the border with Canada, is home to more than 700 lakes.
One of the most striking feature of some of these lakes is the presence of a variety of colored rocks & pebbles just below the water surface and on the shores
[📷 David Rule]
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This is so ethereal❤️
I am never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the closer I come to the truth.
Claude Monet
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It's a gorgeous day again here in sunny Adelaide.
Here are some daisies soaking up the sunshine at one of our lovely beaches.
Don't they look so happy?
#beachlife
#nature
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22nd March is World Water Day.
Thank goodness for water!
Water provided an environment for life to start on planet Earth.
Plus it's a beautifully refreshing drink!
Here's one of my local rivers, looking gorgeous 🫧
❤️
#WaterDay
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I often post about gardening. For those living outside Australia, my country is tropical at the top, cold & snowy at the bottom!
But I live in the driest state in the driest continent, South Australia, in a mediterranean climate. We always have lettuce and summer tomatoes!
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Hilarious!😆
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Aging is the getting of wisdom, if you play it right.
Do you consider the aging process a disease contracted by all, or a natural cycle of life intrinsic to all?
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Wow
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I notice
#librarians
is trending.
I was the volunteer Scholastic Books organiser at my kids' primary school. It was the best job ever, choosing books for the school library.
I did most of my teaching & psychology assignments in the library. The Resource Centre was like paradise!
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A dragonfly just hanging out on a sheet at our place.
Those extraordinary wings and that unbelievable tail!
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Some late harvest 🌿
A nice sized zucchini (with a couple more still growing on the vine) and a small beautifully red capsicum I grew in a large pot in the microclimate next to our bananas.
Nature's abundance!
#GardeningX
#GardeningTwitter
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As summer fades in Australia, and the northern hemisphere marches towards it, I thought it was a great time to post this frangipani. The heady scent always says warm summer days to me. And the flowers are exquisite!
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This is so beautiful.
And yes.
🙏
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Look at that sky!
Not a day for hanging your washing outside.
Australia is being baked on one side and drenched on the other!
Crazy weather 😱
East coast soaking headlines weekend of possible cyclone, frosty south, and endless WA heat via
@ABCaustralia
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Today begins
#WobblyWednesday
.
Sometimes the week begins with intention and choice but goes awry by Wednesday!
Here's to us managing our Wobbly Wednesdays!
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I'm cleaning up my writing room today. Those boxes of things I need to find a place for, errant papers for filing, books I'm halfway through reading.
Thinking about how to set it up for efficiency...
Then I saw this!
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Man, that looks magnificent!
🙏
Share a photo highlighting Blue for Monday morning Blues 🙏🤓✌️
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Magnificent!
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I love both the flowers and the insects going about their work here ❤️
Magnificent colours.
Good job, VenetiaJane 🙏
“To me, flowers are happiness.” – Stefano Gabbana.
April flowers and happy pollinators from my garden for
#SixOnSaturday
: Sicilian honey garlic breaking bud, apple blossom, a bee visiting a rock rose, hoverfly on forget-me-nots, Tulip ‘Angelique’ and Primula auricula.
#gardening
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Our relationships with each other are important. They are a major theme in my books. Talking of friendships, here’s Grevillea and Wattle, enjoying the sunshine together.
#friendship
#harmony
#nature
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Oh my goodness, I'd get so distracted reading in this library! Great place to get some inspiration for writing, though.
What a magnificent view!
#Bod
ø The view from inside Stormen Library, which celebrates 10 years this year
#Norway
#architecture
@Visitbodo
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Tuesday is Chooseday!
One of my favourite characters in my short story compendium (out late 2024) is Katie.
On every Chooseday Katie reminds herself she's the one in charge.
Even as unexpected events unfold, Katie remembers always to choose.
Here's to our Chooseday!
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A character in my short stories anthology (due out later this year) views Tuesday as Chooseday, the day where she reminds herself to choose wisely in life.
Today I'm starting a 4 week
#Chooseday
series.
May all your Choosedays be good ones!
#tuesdaymotivations
#Chooseday
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I write Modern Women’s Fiction. My writing is an eclectic mix of life ambitions, romance, fun, family and friendships. I like to call it Feminist Romance!
#FeministRomance
#ModernWomensFiction
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Candice, who narrates her story in my upcoming debut novel, decides on one career in school and then finds herself in entirely another.
I wonder how many of us this has happened to?
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This is celery I grew from the stub of an organic celery from the shops.
The celery itself is a little bit too small to be tasty, but I've done this before and collected seed then grown more celery, which has been much more useful for eating.
Nature is amazing!
#nature
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@EricTAuthor
@flipkid6
I really love that you wove your grandmother's feistiness into a story.
So good, Eric 🙌
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I love this 💓
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Here's my
#WobblyWednesday
post
Hope you find a way through any wobbles that come your way this Wednesday ❤️🙏
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This is Dichondra repens, otherwise known as the ignominious “kidney weed”, nestled between our pavers.
It keeps down the weeds and is a pretty way to help oxygenate the world.
#nature
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A little bit of our garden undergoing renovation. We clear the weeds we need to, and leave the rest to oxygenate the Earth.
#nature
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Borage is such a great name for this plant, because it's actually bee forage. Bee forage ... borage!
A beautiful plant and so easy to grow, because it self-seeds readily. And look at the colours in those amazing flowers!
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How completely gorgeous is this!
Nicely done, Melissa, I imagine that was a wonderful walk ❤️
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Magnificent!
#GardensHour
People who follow me will have seen these pictures but on the left is the garden one year ago in May, and on the right is the garden this week and I'm so pleased with how it's developing. It's been 5 years since I started with a blank canvas. 😊
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This very beautiful, very evocative.
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That is an exquisite pink ❤️
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#readingforpleasure
is trending 🥳
Reading has always been my escape. It's also formed who I am.
Whether it's fiction or non fiction I believe, where possible, reading should be pleasurable. Stories along the way really help cement ideas.
Simple pleasures 😍
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Nick is an amazing photographer from Australia.
I always love his shots.
Thanks for another beauty, Nick.
❤️
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An oldie but a goldie 😆😆
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We make our own donuts.
It's an easy recipe; the hardest part is getting them to rise. Patience is a virtue!
They don't look anything like the commercial ones, of course, but gee they're absolutely delicious, especially straight out of the oven.
We use natural colouring.
Yum!
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This plant, pigface, ran through my childhood. I can't see it without thinking of my youthful frolics at Adelaide beaches.
Apparently the fruit make a nice jam?
I'm growing some at home now and it's doing just fine.
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Hold on tight…
The first sustainable generation may be on their way!
Hannah Ritchie serves up a wonderful lesson on data science and an improving world.
#ClimateAction
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Good job! 🏆
I first published this
#HistoricalFiction
back in 2019. It was selected by the SOON 2b FAMOUS ILLINOIS AUTHOR PROJECT and LIBRARY JOURNAL as one of the best Indie books for the IAP commercial collections.
#mystery
#romance
#riverboat
#Novel
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International Day for Biological Diversity, post 2
22 May
A white and black butterfly with orange tips, making use of our lucerne
#biodiversity
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The best yet.
International Day of Biodiversity May 22
#biodiversity
This magnificent creature was on our pergola blind ❤️
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Fiction allows us to try on other people's lives. It provides a touchstone; we find there are others who face similar situations, or who think the same, or who think wildly differently!
We learn through watching others face big dilemmas, lose their way, decide new directions.
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Things can be a bit difficult at times in our world.
In case it helps anyone, this website is always full to the brim with great news stories.
When you need a break from the bad news...
❤️🙏
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This is so heartening - a zero waste island!
We are working towards being a zero waste household. Gee it's tough, but every step means less waste.
Progress is powerful!
#ClimateAction
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@ChakaStorm
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@BLBWriter
And thank you very much!
❤️🙏
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I have the last of my
#WobblyWednesday
posts today.
A little light-heartedness to end the wobbly period.
Hope you have a good Wednesday 🙏
Next week I'm turning my attention to
#ThrivingThursday
, looking forward to that!
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Isn't this marvellous?
Good Morning, Just wanted to let you know that I won’t be on here much this week as I’m making the most of the time with my Son b4 he goes on his US 🇺🇸 trip Saturday!! My sleepless nights have begun 😳🙏 Take Care Friends ❤️
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Something bright and cheery as the weeks begins its work.
I found this little piece of gorgeous on a roadside and had to pinch a bit.
What a magnificent pink!
#MondayMyWay
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What a strange bird is the pelican, its beak can hold more than its belly can.
Nice work, Nick 🙏
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That's gorgeous, Vivaneil.
It looks blue enough to be straight out of a kid's movie and fluffy enough to make us all go Awwwww!
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Oh, yeah!
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I love May!
There are so many interesting days in it, as well as several events for my family.
21 May is International Tea Day!
Do ya reckon I like tea much?
#InternationalTeaDay
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Here's my
#MondayMyWay
post for this week.
I've discovered how to add alt text, so I'm starting that now. Woot!
Next week I'm switching my
#inspiration
posts to Tuesdays.
Stay tuned...
It's Monday, let's do this!
Starting the week with
#intention
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These look great!
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Fiction is important.
It allows us to imagine different futures, reflect on our own stories & feel what it’s like to stand in another’s shoes.
But I also believe little stories in non fiction help just as much for the same reason!
As an author, I’m proud to be a part of it all 😊
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Oh, how adorable is this car! It looks like you could pick it up from the toy library!
😍
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The only rooms without books at my place are the hallways (and then even that is not true on library day!)
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I have to have everything in order.
Ages, places where characters live, who's in their outlying community, what happens day by day, what the season is, how the weather might be.
Sometimes I write conversations that don't have a place in the book just to get them clear in my head.
🤣🤣🤣 I have a timeline issue in one of my books (I'm not telling which--you'll have to figure it out). Since then, I've started keeping a calendar handy when I write.
Anyone else?
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I write fiction and non-fiction.
I like the thought that fiction can entertain and make us think at the same time.
I try to do the same with my non-fiction.
Fun and progress are the cornerstones of a happy life!
#Fiction
#NonFictionBooks
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I was fortunate to be a part of this award-winning anthology.
Although my personal story has a happy ending, the start of my story was not so fortunate.
Motherhood is complex & the roads to it, & near it, are many.
Sending love on Mother's Day to everyone.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
#mothersday
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I'm so excited!
My website went live on Sunday.
Woohoo!
I'm so grateful for such a gorgeous looking website.
I have some very fine blogs on there. If you want to take a look I'm at
Did I say I'm very excited?
🙏🥳
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Our front yard used to be just kikuyu grass.
Now it's brimming with rosemary, geranium, peppermint, daisies, lilies, lavender, hebe, salvia, clary sage, evening primrose, nasturtiums, violets, jasmine, clivia, monstera, dracaena, philodendron, and natives.
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I once pinched a bit of this and accidentally left it in my boot for three days. It’s now a beautiful pot plant!
#persistence
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Hilarious!
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I saw an article about this company in New Scientist.
One of the biggest contributors to
#climatechange
is air travel emissions. This looks really hopeful.
If you're interested in calculating your personal emissions from air travel, here's a calculator.
We’re fighting climate change through innovative technology. With our AIRMADE™ Technology, we’re able to turn carbon into carbon-negative chemicals and fuel.
Step inside our factory.
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