Barbara StricklandBarbara Strickland loves being an Australian with an Italian heritage. She thinks it lends an interesting slant to her life, especially her cooking. Her favourite things are travel and languages. Currently working on the second book in The UnexpectedSeries (a place where love of romance and travel co-exist) she is happy to be living in North Queensland tossing coins to help her decide between complaining about the weather or loving it. Having completed a third poetry book, she has been hard at work creating an anthology box set to house all three collections. It is now time to go back to work on the contemporary romance series, and hopefully a paranormal thriller. Barb has four ambitions, to publish her books, more travel (perhaps introduce her grandchildren to the Italian relatives), speak at least three other languages, and own a cat with blue eyes. The year 2020 may just accomplish those things. It remains to be seen but then the impossible has never stopped her before. Read More Read Less