I can’t be sure if the actual 1000th came from Australia, the UK, the US or Malaysia (several came in in rapid succession after Swedish views got me into the high 990s).

Thanks to all of you for your support! I have 57 followers as I write this and it’s a great encouragement believing that there’s an audience out there prepared to read what I have written.

My single greatest referrer is still Facebook, but there’s been a few views generated from Google searches as well. The most popular searches to find me are variations on my name, though “strong female protagonists” seems to work as well.

I thought in honor of the milestone I’d share some of the more unusual google searches that have brought people here:

green monkey injured – presumably this led them to one of my short story pages entitled “The Green Monkeys”

talamh war crys – presumably because ‘Talamh’ is the name of one of the areas in the fictional Kingdom of Alterre, the setting of my novel ‘Exile’. What the googler was looking for though I am not sure.

and my favourites:

how to summoning the jinni – presumably because the jinni are featured in my work-in-progress, a dark urban fantasy  set in an alternative contemporary Melbourne. Unfortunately for the googler it’s not intended to be instructional.

pet monkey climbing nets – presumably they too found my story “The Green Monkeys”. Whether that helped them with their query about pet net-climbing monkeys I cannot say.