... road show

A big part of the fun in publishing with Jane Curry at Ventura Press is having Debbie McInnes’ media team - DMCPR Media, behind me. It’s been a wonderfully collaboratively team effort to promote CROW and get a bit of buzz happening.

Besides the launch late in August, I have been doing events at regional libraries around Tasmania. Libraries Tas coordinators and staff have been amazing - welcoming and well organised. I’ve loved chatting to local people in regional and country towns about my writing journey and what we all like to read.

I’ve also done an ‘in conversation’ with David Owen at Fullers Bookshop in Hobart and have another lined up with Chris from Not Just Books in Burnie next week.

Debbie organised a series of podcasts, radio interviews and print articles which I thoroughly enjoyed. Deb told me it’s all about the back story and broadcasters homed in on the personal details in the press release Debbie sent out. More about the podcasts in my next blog …

The fuss and media hype is slowing down now, and we are hoping that sales of CROW will be a slow burn. The business of publishing can be seen by authors as a ruthless beast, but I understand about running businesses, even if I still have a lot to learn about the business of getting books on bookshelves in shops. I would really like to be a fly on the wall in a huge publishing house in Sydney. Do you think someone could give me a voucher to do this for my birthday? 😊

But now’s the time for me to settle in at the dining room table each afternoon and pull together a sequel to CROW. More on this in a future blog!

I don’t really have enough words to say how grateful I am for this experience of having a book published. Jane and Debbie’s teams have been so accommodating of this writer-to-author person, and I hope I haven’t given them too much grief.