Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you
—Mae West
My dream comes true at last. After 25 years of attending author events at Gleebooks, I finally get to have my own! I'm also lucky to have the delightful Walter Mason to chat with, so it's sure to be a fun afternoon.
It also times well with Sydney's mardis gras parade being on this weekend (given my book is LGBT). You can book your place here
Road trip to Canberra! Peter Arnaudo will be chatting to me at his bookshop The Book Cow in Kingston. You can reserve a place here
If you are local, or in Canberra, please join us at Gunning Library for an author event where I will be talking about my debut novel Something Else. You can book by following this link to the Upper Lachlan Shire website.
Something a little different in the latest epsiode of Writes4Women…
A Convo Couch chat with three emerging authors: Holly Craig, Valerie Miller and Alicia Thompson.
This is the first panel chat on Writes4Women so I'm really excited today to introduce you to these authors.
@hollycraigauthor is a West Australian writer, English teacher and primary teacher. She has a fabulous blog where she writes about writing, and invites others to share their experiences in...
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Stay tuned on the 25th of February when our pre-recorded interview with Pamela Cook for @w4wpodcast will be aired. Pamela will be interviewing emerging writers Varlie Miller, Holly Craig and myself on our experiences of the publishing process, and writing in general. I'm looking forward to learning something, too! (the session will be posted on @w4wpodcast and also on the writes4women website under podcasts)
Photo courtesy of my UK readers getting in some early holiday sun even before winter ends.
Got a nice photo of yourself reading Something Else? Direct message me and I will put together a post!
It's so appropriate to have my book on the shelves of Better Read Than Dead: in the second half of Something Else there are scenes set in Newtown and the characters have dinner at the Thai Pothong Newtown and a gelato at the (now gone?!) place on the corner on the way to the station.
Alicia has consulted from her company efolio since 2000. She is available for teaching and speaking engagements.