by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 7, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Noosa is no place to be when it’s raining. Nor when it’s pouring, as it was last weekend while I was there to attend the inaugural Reality Bites festival of nonfiction in Pomona, about twenty minutes’ drive from Hastings Street. The two-day event,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
In the most eclectic collection of recommendations I’ve seen in a long time, my book is one of five selected for the current Shortlist by the Borders bookstore chain, a curated selection of titles emailed to their 300,000 or so online subscribers. The email...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 2, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Spent two days in BrisVegas over Friday and Saturday, flown there and back by my generous host the University of Queensland, who invited me to be the guest of a literary lunch hosted by their new Vice-Chancellor’s wife, Louise Greenfield. I was the “guinea...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 26, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Some favourite moments from the Sydney Writers Festival, which ended yesterday: Jeannette Winterson’s fiery opening fanfare to the whole event at the Opera House on Tuesday An esteemed expatriate writer advising me, as she signed my copy of her book, that...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 23, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Big sigh of relief as my first-ever Sydney Writers Festival panels came and went without a major hitch, and I even managed to sell quite a few copies of my book. A cast of loyal supporters (including my mother, my publisher, my editor, and a few dear friends) came to...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 10, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Recently I mentioned some tentative steps I’d made inside bookstores to see who had stocked my book, and where they had placed it on their shelves. I have two updates to that post, one ridiculous and the other sublime. The ridiculous: the bookstore that had...