Kylie Eklund-Denman
Kylie Eklund-Denman is an Australian travel writer and a passionate Japanophile. She is also a blogger, foodie, cooking teacher and a qualified sake sommelier.
Her children think she spends an unnatural amount of time looking at and photographing fungi.
She is an avid traveller, writes mostly non-fiction and enjoys exploring language, communication and cultural learning through travel and food.
Kylie recently finished a travel writing course with Morris Journalism. She looks forward to travelling to Japan soon.
Kylie lives in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne with her partner-in-crime, lots of kids, two cats and a ridiculously spoiled Moodle called Yoki-san.
The more that you read,
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
the more things you will know,
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go”
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”
Saint Augustine
Blossomkitty.com
My blog about everything Japan. Travel, history, etiquette, food, sake, culture, art, language, and friends.
Blossomkitty Travels
My blog about travels outside of Japan.
Mountain Ash Chapter
My local community of writers in and around the Dandenong Ranges, in Melbourne.
Travel Reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
One of my favourite things to do before travelling is to read books set in the places I’m visiting. Sometimes memoirs, sometimes non-fiction, and sometimes historical fiction. The Wolf Hall Trilogy, by Hilary Mantel is the epic story of the meteoric rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s right hand man, and Lord Privy…
Genji
Yellow eyes, intense watching birds, rapt attention purring assassin
My Writing Wifey
Do you have a work wife? I have a writing wife. ‘Wifey’, Amanda is my writing other half. I can’t overstate how essential it is to have someone I can trust with my words, to share the joy of wins and the despair of rejections with, and to accompany me on bookish adventures, launches, research…
The Research Rabbit Hole
Last time I checked in I had just had my first rejection after pitching. Later that day, I had a request for the full manuscript. The following week I had another request for the full manuscript. So now I’m in the waiting limbo that is ‘on submission’. Some people like to send their work to…
My Month of Miserable Memoirs
And another three months slip by, just like that. Juggling all the things when you’re trying to write is not easy. I ‘finished’ my memoir some months ago, but have been in an editing frenzy, that feels like a carnival ride that I can’t get off. Where do you stop? And on the other hand,…
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