Launch event

It's been a busy few weeks - so much so that I forgot to mention the launch event we had for the PaperBooks edition of The Grease Monkey's Tale a fortnight ago.  The idea was to compensate for not being able to attend its UK release by having a celebration at Blarney Books & Art in Port Fairy and to get people to start recommending it.

We did it in style: wine, a couple of tables of nibbles, a wonderful introduction by Dmetri Kakmi (author Mother Land, international essayist, occasional contributor to The Age, senior editor of YA and children's fiction), lots of guests, a great venue... and a short reading.  And that Word-of-Mouth thing does indeed seem to be working.

A very big thanks to Dmetri for travelling from Melbourne for the weekend and for his very kind words, and to Jo and Dean for the venue and setting up such a wonderful evening, and to everyone who was able to turn up or pass on their best wishes.

The end of the drought

I guess the drought is over.  We're enjoying floods at the moment.  And there was an ad on TV the other night telling farmers to prepare for plagues of locusts!  Is this biblical or what?

Here's a rather fine photo which SB took on her way to work the other day.  Once there were paddocks!

Kathleen Maher reviews The Grease Monkey's Tale

Kathleen Maher, who blogs at Diary of a Heretic (with online fiction and flash fiction) has posted a tremendous review of The Grease Monkey's Tale at Goodreads and on her Reviews and Memes blog.  You can read Kathleen's work and the review by clicking the links.

Kathleen also writes for The View From Here, where much of her flash fiction has been published.