15 July — click to see full entry
15 July After getting our final edits of The Glass House sequel in last night we hit Darwin bookshops today! QBD in Casurina and The Bookshop Darwin where we had an event. Royalties went to Sabrina’s Reach 4 Life and Lidia its founder spoke about how it came to be. Also caught up with an […]
11 July — click to see full entry —
11 July An early start watching the dawn at Marla then an afternoon in Alice Springs (very quiet!). Bronwyn and Louise at the Red Kangaroo hosted a small event and Josefina Olmedo from MHACA spoke about local mental health services. Now back on The Ghan!
9 July — click to see full entry
9 July Today was spent editing in Adelaide but a book event tonight at the Burnside library supported by Shakespearean books. We’d already visited so no gain in bookshops numbers (we are now in a count down!) but lots of laughs and positive feedback – & some
8 July — click to see full entry
8 July Left our tiny winery near Jamestown and headed through fog and rain through the picturesque Clare region to Adelaide. Got most of the bookshops we missed last time we were here (with the added bonus of the Watervale general store that does great coffee and sells secondhand books to support the local charity […]
7 July — click to see full entry
7 July A big day driving in the rain – essentially 250km there and back for the Broken Hill bookshop! But worth it –small enthusiastic turn out and a nice spot for a coffee out of the rain. Saw hundreds of goats, a few emus (one we very narrowly missed – he definitely used up […]