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After five months we finally ended our tour, almost at four hundred bookshops – just one short after we counted the Airlie Beach bookshop that supported the Whitsundays writers festival where we also clocked another 6 events. There are bound to be some small shops that didn’t get onto our radar but as far as we know we only missed two (Forbes and Armadale) due to bad timing on our part as to when we came past not coinciding with opening times, and four bookshops that asked us not to visit (a pretty small percentage overall!)
In total the royalties from sales of The Glass House at events was $5126 which we donated to mental health charities, VIC and NSW being the largest contributors.
So much of Australia, so many books and perhaps a few too many shopping malls!
Over 80 QBDs, the biggest chain store we visited, Indie bookshops with cafes, art galleries and places to sit and read and 116 events with from 2 to 200 people. A strong theme of bookshops being a part of the community, as well as our book being a vehicle for talking about mental health and helping heal trauma through understanding in families where there was mental illness.
We’re now on our almost final edits of The Oasis, out 26 February, which will follow The Glass House characters, and we are disappearing overseas then to write the third in the series.
A big thank you to all those who bought and read The Glass House, those who came to our events and helped support mental health and bookshops, and of course to the bookshop sellers who were so supportive and universally positive about, of course, BOOKS!
