I was interviewed by phone this morning by a journalist named Erin O'Dwyer from the Sydney Morning Herald. She wanted to do a feature article on my journey and my struggles as a Gay Christian.

It was a good interview and I felt that I expressed myself very well. I also got a chance to plug my book, so I was pleased with that. The feature is for a column in the Sydney Morning Herald called "Things I Love." Erin also offered me the chance to read the article when it is finished and make sure I am happy with it, which is very nice of her.

I was so nervous about this last night, that I barely slept a wink! As it happened, though, it was very relaxed and low key and I needn't have fretted so much about it.

How do you feel about talking to the media? Do you think you would talk to them if given the chance? If someone wanted to interview you for "Things I Love" what topic would you speak about?

I don't know about anyone else, apart from my partner and myself, but I am wondering just how many people have noticed the prevalence - and it is increasing - of typographical errors these days in published books?

Good proof reading seems to be getting harder and harder to find, with even books from mainstream publishers coming off the press with one or two (sometimes more) errors still in the text.

There are probably various reasons for why this happens, but the main ones, I should imagine would have to be the speed of production nowadays and the ever present 'bottom line' or budget.

Proof reading costs money. Editing costs money. Good proof reading and editing costs even more money and they all take time and attention to detail. The sad fact is, these days, the money is not available, and the time to get a salable product onto the shelves is growing shorter.

What I think this means is that it is becoming, increasingly, down to the author to ensure he or she has done everything physically possible to make the manuscript as error free and 'clean' as they say in the industry as possible. This needs to be done way before it gets to the editing and proofing stage at the publisher.

The smaller the press, the more important it will be that the author either self edits, or employs someone to edit their work before submitting it to the publisher and sometimes even after submitting.

I've known some authors to object to this idea and frankly, I can't understand why. At the end of the day, the book is your product. It's the thing that will publicly represent you to your readers. The question is, do you want a representation that is going to be a pleasure to read, and make your consumer want more, or do you want something that your consumer will regret buying and hurl across the room in frustration?

Think about it. :)

When I was pregnant with each of my three children, I experienced vivid and often frightening dreams about the baby, the birth and all kinds of things that could go wrong. This increased dreaming, and even the frightening dreams are actually normal parts of pregnancy and don't mean that something is going to go wrong with the baby or the birth.

A couple of times recently, I have likened the waiting period for my novel to be released, to waiting for a child to be born, and last night, for the first time in that waiting period, I dreamed about the release of my book.

And, oh, what a dream it was! LOL! I dreamed that the book went to the press without my having a chance to take a last look over it and make sure all was well with it. That didn't seem to concern me as much in the dream as I think it would in reality. Finally, the day arrived, and I received a print copy of my book and...OMG! Disaster.

The book had the wrong cover. Some garish, RED monstrosity of a cover with a burning ship depicted. It had the wrong title as well. The title had changed from The Heart Divided to 319 Days. The blurb on the back was for another book entirely and, whilst the story inside the cover was my story, the name of the heroine had changed. I was upset, because?

Well, because I had just spent money on having post cards and all printed and now they were wrong?

LMAO! I think I would have been upset for entirely different reasons in reality.

They say that women who dream of bad deliveries in the third trimester of pregnancy generally have quick and stress free births. Let's hope that this dream about my book augers well of it's release and acceptance by readers.