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Extra! Extra! Read all about it. The 2013 Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

 

CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY THE CALINGARRY CROSSING WAY

The local Saddleton Harvest News extends a big Calingarry Crossing Australia Day welcome. Our little town is buzzing with business owners ready to celebrate. Bring the family. Bring the dog, the horse, the cow. Ladies, bring your husband (if you can tear him away from the cricket).

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It’s here! And the House for all Seasons town of Calingarry Crossing is ready to par-tay! Celebrations begin with a dawn flag raising event at Calingarry’s war memorial in the main street, followed by a program of fun for the whole family, with street closures in place from 7 am – 3 pm. The afternoon will see the return of Saddleton Rotary HFAS front cover workingClub’s traditional spit roast with beer games, music, and rides for the kids. You can even win this book – the story of four women forced to spend a season each in the century-old Dandelion House, back in the country town of their youth, where they discover a secret that binds them to the house and to each other forever.

 

Who else is doing the blog hop this weekend? See Book’d Out and Confessions from Romaholics.

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A Guessing Game, A Book To Win, A Blog To Hop

While many, many people have inspired me in some weird and wonderful ways over the years, there is a group of Australian authors who have definitely influenced my writing.

Call it cocky, quirky or crazy, I used to amuse my ‘unpublished’ self by writing an author into each novel, never imagining:

a) I would be published and

b) the author – with title – would escape an editors red pen.

Guess what? I AM published (soon) and the author’s name DID stay in the final version of House for all Seasons, out March 1. (Pre-order here).

But which author gets a mention?

HINT: It can’t be Lisa Heidke and Bronwyn Parry as I have already included them in novels yet to be published — like this.

From The Simmering Season (coming 2014)

Maggie refused to get up before she’d read at least three chapters of her latest Lisa Heidke novel. The author had a knack of portraying motherhood and the every day, showing real woman struggling to balance work, family and dreams, just like Maggie. Only in fiction there was a guarantee of happy ever after.

Bronwyn Parry features in one of my favourite (and earliest) works – which means it may never see the light of day!)

From MOSAIC…

Throwing open the flap on her knapsack, Gina took a quick inventory: denim shorts; a black, cheesecloth top; beach towel; the super, scrunch-it-up-all-you-like jacket she’d owned for years; her new digital camera and the latest Bronwyn Parry novel.

So… are you a smartie? Can you correctly guess which author made it into House For All Seasons?

Any one who leaves a correct guess on this post today (Thursday 24-01-13) will automatically get one extra entry in my Australia Day Blog Hop Book Giveaway -starting Friday 25 at 12 noon (AESD) – on this blog. So leave your guess now and pop back on the weekend, read the Australia Day Blog Hop post, and you can double your chance of winning.

If you want another hint, you will find the author’s name on this list (my ‘most read’ Goodreads data).

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My Kleenex Cover Moment

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Here it is. And my reaction is crazy: crying, dizzy and shaking (so much I can’t type).

Is this weird or is it because it is just so wonderful — the cover and the significance of this achievement … this dream come true.

Thank you Larissa Edwards and the Simon & Schuster team. You are the best in the business with a beautiful boutique way of conducting that business. It makes you very special and I am very grateful you loved my book so much.