New Edition
Ooooh! Look what was just delivered to my place – a beautiful new edition of Elizabeth Macarthur. Just quietly, I think I like this cover better. I fear the previous one was in danger of being dismissed as ‘a woman’s book’. That’s not a joke. I took my daughter into a bookshop recently, one of…
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Spent publication day (April 2) just horsing around. But that said, the horse did say he enjoyed the book. And, now that the book is out in the world, I can only hope that others are buying and reading it too. Plenty of signed copies at Readings Carlton, thanks for asking. My family keep asking…
Drafting a Blurb – the craft of catching a reader
Once I started thinking about blurbs, it became clear how little I rely on them these days. I usually choose books to read because I’ve already read or heard about them – on blogs, in reviews, in articles, on podcasts. It’s rare for me to pick up a random book, read the blurb on the…