by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 27, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
A rather lovely title for a snippet about my book that featured in the Sydney Morning Herald’s book pages over the weekend. And a photo (in what has been described as my pink “nurse’s shirt”) to boot. I was unaware of the piece until I rang my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 14, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
It’s begun: over the weekend I responded to a series of questions put to me via email by a magazine in which my book is receiving its first public review. In addition to answering a few factual and straightforward queries, I had to address others such as: Why...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 8, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I have been invited to participate in the Sydney Writers Festival, which takes place in May 2008, and the Byron Bay Writers Festival in July, on the back of The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. Apparently the book publishers undertake some kind of beauty...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 1, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
One of the casualties of my rough re-entry to life in Sydney in the past two months has been this blog, which served the original purpose of keeping friends and family informed, and occasionally amused, about aspects of my life in New York during 2006-07. From the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 17, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Well the PR wheels are already in motion – I’ve been alerted to an article in December’s Australian Bookseller & Publisher entitled “The Ones to Watch in 2008”, in which publishers spruik a few titles from their forthcoming schedule...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 29, 2007 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Delighted to finally be able to share the news that I have secured a London-based agent at the esteemed Rogers, Coleridge & White Agency to sell The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement in the UK and beyond. All of this is totally in the realm of miracles...