Margaret R Kelly

Margaret R Kelly – Writer & Travelling Raconteur 

I write. I travel. I read. I learn. I dream and I live my dream.

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  • The Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture QLD

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    You may, when watching the news in February, have heard about the theft of some priceless Egyptian treasures from a private museum near Brisbane. If so, like me, you may have wondered what sort of place has valuable artefacts in a situation from which they’re stealable. The ‘cat burglar’ actually had the cat carving in…

  • Just musing on manuscript rejection:

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    Publishers are looking for certain genres to fill their quotas. They demand authors and characters who readers like. My advice (or just one piece of it), is don’t write to be liked. Write to be honest and then twist the truth about events just enough so nothing can be pinned on you. The moment you…

  • Taking the Tokyo Subway

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    This is the statue of Hachiko, Japan’s equivalent of Scotland’s Greyfriars Bobby (photo copyright Alan Bailey). It’s at Shibuya Station in Tokyo, beside the must-see ‘Shibuya Scramble’ pedestrian crossing (best viewed from the Shibuya Sky Building), a great shopping district (a mega Don Quijote store and a huge new shopping precinct called Miyashita Park) and…