Hello.
My name is Wendy Glassby. I am a writer of fiction.
All my life I have written short stories.
While caring for my family, I had a paying job, sometimes part time, sometimes full time.
Since retiring from paid employment at age 55, this is how I filled my time:
First, I chose three of my existing short fiction and sent them out. They were published.
I enrolled at Murdoch University and achieved a BA Hons (Creative Arts)
Then a PhD, ‘As much as fits upon an aibika leaf’
While there I published academic papers, presented at conferences, and won awards
and I have since written two novels.
I’m now 80.
I’m an advocate for grabbing life in both hands, regardless of age.
My first novel, published through Lily Ellen Publishing in 2021, was informed by my teenage impressions of life in the Papua New Guinea town of Rabaul
My second novel, also published by Lily Ellen Publishing when I turned 80, is informed by observing my mother-in-law’s comfortable twenty-five years in aged care and through my peers, all like me grappling with the confusing messages we receive about being old.
Billy, a mature-aged long-distance runner has her life suddenly changed when a fall in her most recent event brings her caring and worried son to place her, if only temporarily, in a luxury aged care facility. Billy is furious at not being given a voice in this decision and she’s terrified she will become as decrepit as those with whom she shares her new home. But life has more to offer Billy, including creating deep relationships with those ‘monstrous’ fellow-inmates, more especially stumbling across her soulmate.
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