Mish has one hundred and three rules for pain, and the most important one is: you’re allowed to laugh about it. Out loud. And anyone within earshot is welcome to join in.
I write fiction about women who get entangled.
In people, in places, in the quiet pull of a life they did not plan for.
The moments when something feels right and wrong at the same time, and you run towards it anyway.
The Sound She Makes (Hushtide Book 1)
Five women on the Surf Coast of Victoria find the chosen family they have all been looking for. That should be the end of the story.
But one of them falls in love, and that changes everything.
Women of a certain age entangled in something they cannot quite see yet. Falling for each other in the middle of a life that is quietly going wrong.
Queer women’s fiction about identity, desire, and something wrong underneath. Funny, filthy, tender.
Coming late 2026.
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A footpath on the Surf Coast. A stranger who smells like cinnamon. And a question Mish is not ready to answer.
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I live on the Surf Coast of Victoria with two cats, Arrow and Reilly. They have strong opinions about my addiction to Below Deck and how I refuse to make them the stars of my novels.
I write contemporary fiction about desire, belonging, and the small moment when a woman realises she’s been lying to herself for years.
The lie is nobody’s fault. But it is going to cost her something to face the truth.
My women have histories. They are funny about things that are not funny, because that is one of the ways women survive. They fall for each other. They get it wrong. They come back to themselves, usually by taking the long way home.
