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Veronica Strachan

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in Melbourne, Australia
December 15

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See also V.E. Patton (pen name)
Veronica is the author of Breathing While Drowning: One woman's quest for wholeness and The Wholeness Quest Workbook & Journal. With her daughter and illustrator Cassi Strachan she has a children's series The Adventures of Chickabella (Chickabella and the Rainbow Magic, Chickabella Counts to Ten & Chickabella Shapes Up).

Under her pen name V. E. Patton, she's published Ochre Dragon the first book in her epic fantasy series The Opal Dreaming Chronicles and a short story in Christmas Australis: A Frighteningly Festive Anthology of Jingling Tales, (an anthology of short stories by eight Aussie authors).

Veronica wrote stories and poems as soon as she learnt to read and her favourite place in the world was the local
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Veronica Strachan Feeling the words drop onto the page. Looking up and realising your story is flowing, the word count is growing, there's magic in it.
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Feeling the words drop onto the page. Looking up and realising your story is flowing, the word count is growing, there's magic in it.
Making stuff up, and putting a little bit of who you are in every piece.
Working in the quiet of the early morning when all the ideas are still shiny and new.(less)
Veronica Strachan Chooks are an Australian/New Zealand (and I think British) colloquial name for chickens (it can encompass both hens and roosters). :)
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What brings you joy?

Now, I know it might seem odd to take my Joy from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows — John Koenig’s masterful collection of made up words — but bear with me.

All the words in the Dictionary are new, and this is important… they’re “not necessarily intended to be used in conversation, but to exist for their own sake, to give a semblance of order to a dark continent, so you can settle it yourself on y

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