by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 13, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Regular readers will notice that I now have a spiffy new homepage with my picture on it, plus a few pages in addition to this blog. Concluding it was time to get a bit more professional in my virtual home, the website will function as a one-stop shop for anyone...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 5, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
One of my favourite things about being in New York is the range of theatrical experiences at your fingertips. Whether it’s a man in gothic get-up, face painted white for no apparent reason, strolling purposefully down Lafayette as if he were heading to a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 28, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Limbo is not a new aconym for a Manhattan neighbourhood, although New York City, where I’m writing from, is full of them – Loisa for the Lower East Side, NoLiTa for North of Little Italy, Dumbo for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. No, Limbo simply...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 21, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Back in New York for a while to wait out the limbo between having finished copies of my book and their appearing in book stores. And to see friends, go to the theatre, file my US tax return, buy a pair of long winter boots. I seem to have done little else but eat...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 9, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Hot on the heels of my finished book came my copy of the February edition of Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine, the trade magazine for the book industry. That’s a version of my book jacket as the cover design for this issue. (You’re right, my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 5, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
The actual printed book, as it turns out, doesn’t feel quite real at all. This is my conclusion after finding an Express Post satchel on my doorstep this afternoon when I got home from work, containing two finished copies of The Young Widow’s Book of Home...