Joni Page Author

A slightly overcast sky overlooks a number of people and surfboats on a sandy beach.

Surfboat rowing is incredible!
A hive of activity on a beautiful SA day

Our algal bloom is sadly still present in some areas but parts are doing better
Fingers crossed

#southaustralianbeaches #surfboats
#beachstories #newbook2026

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A yellow book, My One True Love, against a blue cotton blanket

From my home library - a collection of quirky tales from some people not usually known for their authorship and edited by Caro Llewellyn.

Looking forward to releasing my second book - my own short tales collection ❤️

#newbook2026 #shortstories
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These happy calendula are hanging off one of my strawberry pots. The strawberries don't mind. And nor do the bees! 🐝 🌼
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The bright pink Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl sits against a deep purple background.

What a happy, cheery cover!
So grateful to our cover designer for the lovely job they did on my debut novel.

It always makes me feel optimistic ❤️
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Lol, that's funny and YES!

A shop with wooden floors. Beautiful wooden tables hold piles of books. In the background more books and goods are on shelves and racks.

Book shopping is the best shopping!
Look at those beautiful tables ❤️

At Dymocks Adelaide to check book stocks of The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl and do a little shopping.

A perk of being an author is that I get to visit bookshops more!

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Two yellow cucumber flowers sit amongst the leaves that clamber up a trellis. A bee is in the middle of one of them.

A happy bee enjoying shade and a cucumber flower on our 45 degrees celsius day.
Most of my garden is under shade-cloth while our heatwave continues. The bird & bee baths are filled.
The insects & birds seem grateful.
🐝 🦜 🐞
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A close-up of a yellow marigold.

The sunny glory of the marigold!
A useful plant happily self-seeding through my garden. This one popped its lovely head up in my mandarin pot.

Nature is marvellous ❤️

#selfseeded #flowergarden
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"Nobody But Him", "Someone Like You" and "Our Kind of Love" are all colourful books with a woman on the cover and a scene from a beachside place. Books are set against some dolphin fabric in shades of blue.

Beachy South Aussie books rule!
Don't you love these gorgeous covers?

From my home library, a series by fellow South Australian author, Victoria Purman.

Excited to be to releasing my own beachy stories this year 🎉 🥳

#anthology #newbook2026

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Here is pretty comfrey growing around my compost bin, pink salvia in the background.

As well as beautifying that part of the garden, throwing a few comfrey leaves into the compost helps the compost.

Win-win!
#sustainability #gardenfertility
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A pretty yellow sunflower against a blue sky - and a rain water tank.

The sunflower has arrived!
She's a beauty, my only one this year.

After last year's drought I spent most of this year trying to recapture the water holding capacity of my soil.

I'm grateful for every little - and big! - thing that has been successful.

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#homegarden

Joni Page with Hanna from the West Torrens library, with the screen behind showing the beginning of my slides, a photo of me with the book.

Talking at West Torrens library in 2025.
Here is the lovely Hanna who organised the talk. We had a lot of fun!
Fingers crossed for another chat with the new book this year.

@westtorrenslibraryservice
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#authortalk

The entrance to Dymocks Glenelg, showing the big red Dymocks "flag", and inside books and displays of cards.

A visit to the lovely Dymocks bookshop at Glenelg to buy some books and check stocks of my own book. And probably buy some cards ... and maybe a bookmark ...

Bookshops are paradise!

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#bookshops #authors

3 seagulls sit on a fence and handrail, the beach behind. The sky is a lovely blue.

Seagulls happily enjoying the brilliant blue beach sky!

What a treasure the beach is. It's been the background to most of my books.

Fingers crossed the pesky algal bloom passes soon.

#southaustralianbeaches
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#newbook2026 #anthology

The sweet pink book Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl being held against part of my lovely garden.

Here she is, my lovely book!
More positive feedback from a happy reader this morning ❤️
So pleased to be able to entertain 🙏
Order through your local bookstore. Or ask at your library!
🎉
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#selfdiscovery #funny #heartwarming

A group of blue cornflowers against their grey foliage.

Cheery cornflowers grew wild through my garden this year.
Last year I managed to grow them for the first time, and this year they have self seeded. So bright and happy!
Nature rules ❤️

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A room with bookshelves around the walls, tables with books and a white corrugated roof. The Australian fiction area, with The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl stocked in it, is to the right of the photo.

The beautiful Matilda Bookshop, jam-packed with lovely books. You can see the Australian fiction section, with The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl available for sale!
So grateful to be stocked in such a much-loved bookshop ❤️

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Arthur C. Clarke, The Other Side of the Sky

A book from my personal library to celebrate my upcoming anthology.

As you can see from its dog-eared cover, a longtime family favourite.
Funny, thought-provoking, surprising & sometimes sad.

A glorious reminder of how good Arthur C. Clarke was.
#shortstories #newbook2026

The bees are having a ball at my place 🐝

The pink-tinged creamy-flowered bottlebrush is in flower in our habitat garden, a place we set aside for native plants and a couple of helpful exotics.

#habitat #bees
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#newbook2026 #shortstories

Thanks so much!
I love leptospermum, such a pretty species. I have one to plant, just missed the chance to plant it, waiting for autumn now.

Remembering a cheery blue sky and the happiness of a wide sandy beach 😍

South Australia's lovely beaches are the inspiration behind my upcoming anthology.

Unfortunately our lovely coast is currently suffering through an algal bloom.
Looking forward to better days ❤️

A bush has many small white rounded daisies across it.

Why have one pretty flower when you can have many!
Seen on a walk around a different neighbourhood to mine.
Anyone know what it is? I don't think it's diosma ❤️

#flowergarden #neighbourhoodwalks

A lone copy of the pink book The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl sits on a bookshop shelf with other books.

Just one pretty pink copy left on the shelf at Dymocks Glenelg.
So grateful for the support of bookshops ❤️
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#bookshops #indiebooks

A row of glass doors with a wooden roof above. Slung on the roof are lines of hanging pom poms. A bicycle sits against the adjoining wall.

Such a pretty library ❤️
West Torrens use pompoms instead of flags at their entrance.

A single yellow dahlia

Sunshine in flower form!
I love it when the dahlia under my apple tree starts to flower. Always happy ❤️

#dahlia #homegarden #happiness #thefeministearthmotherpartygirl

Purple flowers in the foreground waving in the breeze, some big rocks behind, and the sand and ocean behind that. The sky is cheery blue with some light clouds.

Need some calm? Here's a little gentle breeze at the beach.
Remember to breathe!
Merry Christmas Eve and Happy holidays to all 🌲

#christmas #beachlife #happydays
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How beautiful are the purples and pinks of this Morning Glory vine? ❤️
Last blog for 2025 today. Thanks to everyone who's given me positive feedback. I hope there's been something for everyone.
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Lots of love to all 😍
#blogging
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The statue is bedecked with a Christmas hat, a red nose and tinsel.

Oh what fun!
This is one of the beach sculptures along Adelaide's beautiful coastline. It's usually a metal man sitting eating chips.
Some scamp had decided to jazz him up for Christmas!
🌲 🤣
#christmasfun #adelaidebeaches

Writing Audrey Audrey was a very different character when I first wrote her. She was living with two cats and having an affair with a married man. Interestingly, she had a wise friend called Leah, who became Leis…

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A beautiful sprig of magenta roses set against the foliage.

Interested in how characters evolve?
Today's blog is a short focus on how Audrey developed.
I hope you've enjoyed meeting her. Penny begins in the new year!

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Don't you love this beautiful rose? All happiness to you ❤️

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