Thank you so much, Summer! ❤️

The front and back of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology shows a beach scene with sand, blue-green sea and a blue sky. A white yacht is in the distance. The cover wraps around the book, and the box contains the books stacked side by side, front and back, in a brown cardboard box.

What a lovely sight when I opened the box!

A big thank you to my cover designer at @potatoleekbooks ❤️
The wrap around picture is gorgeous 😮

Launching 3 May 2026

#beachshortsasandthology #newbook2026

Pretty cosmos flowers in my ramshackle veggie garden edge 🐝

#sustainability #bees #insects
#homegrown

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Apricot coloured dahlia.

How gorgeous is this colour?
From a lovely friend's garden
❤️

A yellow calendula with a bee sitting in it.

A sweet bee happily at work in a pretty calendula 🐝

The bees love my organic garden. I'm so grateful for their presence ❤️

#organic #nature #bees #flowergarden

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Beach Shorts - a Sandthology, from the author of The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl, Joni Page. The book has a pretty beach scene of a white yacht sailing on a blue-green ocean, below a blue sky. The book sits on a swirling blue-green cloth with lovely navy blue whales swimming around.

Launching on 3rd May!

Looking for happy stories?
Like sweet resolutions? Answers to complex questions? Watching good people win?

Beach Shorts - a Sandthology
... an eclectic mix of sweet, savoury and funny tales ❤️

#beachshortsasandthology
#shortstories #happiness #winning

Thanks for asking ❤️
The beach has always been wild freedom to me. My walks along the beautiful South Australian beaches have inspired these stories, and the beach features, in one way or another, in each story.
It's been a real labor of love, writing from diverse points of view.

Agree on all counts!
I loved that it came out of nowhere and it was such a juxtaposition to where he started at the beginning of the book ❤️

white, and purple and white alyssum

Pretty alyssum helping the bees who in turn help pollinate my veggie garden.
Could a system be any prettier?
🐝 🌸

It was quite a fascinating friendship, wasn't it?
I love friendship stories (it's why I write them so much).
❤️

A beautiful beach sunset ❤️

#beach #southaustralianbeaches
#beachstories #shortstories

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A 400g jar, 3/4 filled with lovely stripey seeds.

All these seeds came out of one sunflower! 😮
No wonder it's called a Mammoth 🤣

A recycled jar too ❤️

#sustainability #homegarden #homegrownfood

#thefeministearthmotherpartygirl
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Beach Shorts - a Sandthology from the author of The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl. The book cover shows a blue-green sea and a blue sky, with a small white yacht sailing. The book is laying against material that has different hues of blues, greens and purples.

Short stories for hectic lives ❤️

Coming early May 🎉🎉

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#shortstories #beachstories

The books are: The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion, Beach Shorts - a Sandthology by Joni Page, A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman, The Runaway Jury by John Grisham, The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon, and The Shift Key by John Brunner

Blue book stack day!

Good company for the second from the bottom ❤️

#bluestack #bluebooks #shortstories
#beachshortsasandthology

The beach is luminous as waves pound this rockwall ❤️

#beach #beachstories
#beachshortsasandthology

You funny 😂

A creamy coloured flower.

Does anyone known what this flower is?
Like a rose and a carnation had a baby together!
#mysteryflower #creamflowers #nature

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#thefeministearthmotherpartygirl

Beach Shorts a Sandthology From the author of The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl Cover is a beach scene - a wide sandy beach with a blue sky and ocean hues of blue, green and aqua. A white sailing boat is a little way offshore.

My new book, chock full of happy stories about people at the crossroads, people standing firm, people chasing a chance, and people who strive for better.

Entertaining, cheerful, surprising, and inspired by the beach 🐳
Coming soon ❤️

Beach Shorts - a Sandthology 😎

Pretty reds from a posy. So cheerful ❤️

Hope everyone had a good Easter 🌸

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A baby-pink geranium in a round ceramic pot.

How sweet is the pink of this geranium? A cutting from a friend's place ❤️
So happy.

#pinkflowers #flowergarden

#beachshortsasandthology
#thefeministearthmotherpartygirl

A perfect yellow sunflower and a grey sky behind.

I've got sunflower on a cloudy day!
Planted in late summer here, I have three of them and this is the first to flower.
Nature rocks!

#sunflower #cloudyday #homegarden

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Oh, a greenhouse, that sounds marvellous!
I'm wondering about microclimates, cold frames, winter houses ...
Flowers are fabulous, the bees will love you!

My garden is my mental health buddy. Just glorious to get outside and see amazing things - I have some sunflowers about to bloom, I planted some late corn and it's doing fabulous, the self seeded parsnip and bok choy are coming along, so exciting!
🐝🌸😍🥳

It is very similar to jasmine but the flowers are much bigger. Funny you say that, though, because I wondered if it was pandorea jasminoides! But the flowers are still a little different.
🤫

Like a peek at my new book, Beach Shorts - a Sandthology?
Download the first story for free from my website
Link in bio ❤️

You also get Swinging Through, the prequel to my first book, The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl, thrown in for good measure.

Happy, funny, optimistic stories about life 🍮

Several white flowers growing in a pot.

I saw these pretty flowers while out, but I don't know what they are.
Anyone know?
#flowerpower #mystery

A shallow sandy beach with a headland in the background, and Brighton jetty, with its sculptures. The sky is blue with a few wispy clouds.

A relaxed walk in the shallows a few years ago. Isn't this a beautiful peaceful beach?
Adelaide, South Australia ❤️

#adelaidebeaches #beachstories
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Cheeky pumpkin rambling over my lavender bush 🤣🤣

#foodgarden #homegrownfood

Thank you so much! The cover designer is a genius!
❤️

Yellow marigolds. In the background there are orange nasturtiums and white alyssum, with a little home made bird bath to one side

Pretty marigolds brighten a gloomy day here 🌼 🐝 🐞
In the self-seeded flower area of my garden. Nature doing all the work, thank you very much!

#flowergarden #marigolds