Maria Simms is a published novelist, short story writer and sometime academic who has lectured creative writing. She was very involved in the Sydney theatre scene in the heady days of the 1960s and 70s and is writing about this period (carefully – to protect the guilty!). Maria owns WordCraft Consulting, a company that specialises in creative, business and academic writing. It's early days yet but in the past fortnight Maria has done script appraisal on a musical play script; given feedback on a doco series on cheeses; and edited a PhD in Fine Art.