by Virginia Lloyd | May 4, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Thank you to those readers who have taken the time to write to me with their response to my book. I like the fact that each reader refers to a different moment in the book, as if that particular detail had special resonance just for them. It is deeply satisfying. I...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 2, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
From Monday for three weeks my longtime pal Jen Fleming (co-author of Spotless, the biggest-selling Australian nonfiction book of recent years) and I can be heard exchanging thanks on mix106.5fm’s Thank You Project. The idea of the Project is to gather as many...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 28, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
All the genuine interest in my story has led to a perhaps not-unexpected regression over the weekend, in which I stayed very close to home (truthfully, I barely left the house) and tried to recover some equilibrium. Perhaps the tipping point was my first public...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 25, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been a little overwhelmed at the level of media interest in my book. Not that I’m complaining for a second, but I had never anticipated how exhausting it would be to talk about myself (which clearly defines me as Gen X...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 19, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Walking into a bookstore as a first-time published author, looking for evidence of your cherished output on the shelves, is an activity both exciting and a little shameful. Having been encouraged to introduce myself to local booksellers, this week I have learned...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 12, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Not quite sure what to say at the tail end of this most extraordinary first week of life for my little hardback book, other than that I am in a constant state of surprise at the reception it has received so far. The review in today’s Sydney Morning Herald is...