Bayside Local Author Expo: Victoria, Australia

Free program for writers at the Beaumaris Library, Victoria, to be held on Sunday 29th May 2016, 1-5pm.

Having joined the Sandy Beach writer’s group, I am now tiptoeing out of my comfort zone to join in this Bayside Local Author Expo. It would be great if any of you are able to come along. There will be many authors selling books, plus the program below that looks quite interesting.

It will also be children’s book illustrator- friend, Andrew McLean’s 70th birthday that day, so there should be some great celebrations as well. Please introduce yourself if you do manage to come along.

Beaumaris Large Hall
1.30 – 2.15 Writing and marketing Children’s Literature
Panel Discussion
MC Kieran Carroll George Ivanoff
Annie White
Jacqui Grantford
Leanne Vernon
2.30 – 3.15 Developing a non-fiction book that will appeal to agents and readers alike
Panel Discussion
MC Kieran Carroll Graeme & Elsie Johnston
Krissy Nicholson
Vikki Petraitis
Susan Moore
3.30 – 4.15 Challenges in writing and publishing Fiction
Panel Discussion
MC – Kieran Carroll Anna George
Sally Hepworth
Elise McCune
Leigh redhead
Beaumaris Small Hall
1.30 – 2.15 Get a publisher or self publish?
Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Vikki Petraitis Martin Playne
Olga Lorenzo
Suzanne McCourt
Suzy J Brown
2.30 – 3.15 Promotion is not a dirty word! The art of marketing your book
Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Rochelle Jackson Lorraine Campbell
Jane Sullivan
Olga Lorenzo
Jenny Ackland
3.30 – 4.15 Past & present Bayside Writers in Residence: where are they now?
Panel Discussion/Readings
Facilitator: Mark Potter Dick Gross
Pauline Luke
Gillian Barnett
Christine Rogers

Our library is our pride and joy: daily prompt

My most precious thing, that fills me with most joy, is my library.

In fact it is our library. Religiously we go to the Hastings Library on the Mornington Peninsula where the friendly staff welcome us. It’s a small library by city standards. Books can be ordered from the bigger libraries, and the books get recycled between four libraries.

When I am not blogging, yes, I do have another life. Gardening, cooking, ironing, allow me to listen to audio books. Chris listens to stories as he paints. We are then able to discuss which ones we think are successful and why the others don’t come up to scratch.

We have discovered many genres previously unexplored. If we don’t like them we just start another. Popular choices are often crime fiction, from the gentle Donna Leon stories set in Venice, to popular Patricia Cornwell and many in between. Books of course are a separate bedtime activity. We read till we can’t keep our eyes open and allow the soporific effect to take us to an exciting dream world that we both fully participate in.

Without books our world would be quite colourless. (sorry, we Australians still like to use ‘u’ in some of our words).

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