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.

At Book and Bed in Tokyo, where you sleep among the bookshelves.

The more that you read,
the more things you will know,
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go”
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

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.

Mountain Ash Chapter

My local community of writers in and around the Dandenong Ranges, in Melbourne.

Going to ‘Author Talks’ is one of my favourite things about being a writer. Listening to someone describe their writing process, their road to publication story, and their trials and tribulations is always interesting, but also validating. In the beginning, it feels like you’re playing dress-ups when you say ‘I’m a writer.’ Most people’s response…

To Prologue or Not to Prologue

A lot of people suggest not writing prologues. Just start at chapter one and be done with it. In fact, I recently heard an author saying many readers skip the prologue altogether. This horrified me. So whether to have a prologue or not have a prologue is a difficult decision. However, my book starts in…

What’s a Structural Edit?

One thing I’m learning about writing is you learn everything as you go. You become a writer by writing. When I began this project I had no idea about writing, drafting, editing, publishing, or what a structural edit may or may not be. Now, I’m in the middle of one and it’s a big mess.…

My Year of Reading

My year of writing has been accompanied by a year of reading. I have always been an avid reader. As a school student, I was able to walk to and from the train station each day without looking up from the page. I could read in the car, even on winding roads, and on boats,…

Japan Break

When I finished my first draft, two weeks ago, I thought I’d jump straight in and start an editing re-write. Well, I did do that and it was not a good idea. I started getting sucked into a familiar black hole of sadness and I was overwhelmed. I’m condensing some pieces for competition, so I…