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 10, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Tuesday night I was honoured by Australian journalist and commentator Anne Summers, who launched my book, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, in front of more than 120 people at my local bookshop, Shearer’s on Norton Street, Leichhardt. Anne spoke...