A hammock full of short stories

The author lives in Mandurah, Western Australia. She has a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Marketing and Management, which she obtained as a mature age student while raising her family of four children. She loves to read and write and has been an enthusiastic participant in amateur theatre for over 20 years. Jude won the Society of Women Writers September Writers' Marathon in both 2015 and 2016 and has attained second and third place in two other marathons. She believes in promoting reading and writing for children and adults alike at a local level and is a member of two local writers' groups, Coastal Writers and Scribblers where she contributes weekly. She is also a member of Sisters in Crime, a group based in Melbourne that provides support for women mystery writers. Jude loves to travel and experience new things. She wouldn't consider herself an adrenalin junky but she does like to enjoy life to the fullest. She has parachuted, white water rafted, ridden a mechanical bull, parasailed, hitch hiked around Australia, ridden a Harley, currently drives a convertible and has twice lived in New Orleans.