The super friendly and oh so lovely Jan Goldsmith and David McLean interviewed me on 3CR’s ‘Published…or Not’. You can listen to it here. You may or may not be able to hear my head cold.
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More reviews!
Some lovely words from some lovely people:
7 places that will inspire you to write
Or, more precisely, 7 places that inspired me to write. Thanks to the lovely people at AWOL for publishing this piece.
Booktopia review, or as we now refer to them, my new BFFFFFF.
Check out my Ten Terrifying Questions with the good people at Booktopia as well as Andrew Cattanach’s review which has left me incredibly humbled but also fairly inflated around the head region.
Subtle ways to promote your book in the work tea room
Bookworld Q&A
Check out my Q&A with the lovely people at Bookworld. It was such fun to write.
on the shelves and other things that make me happy-cry
Today I assembled a rag-tag team of colleagues (think Ocean’s Eleven, but community workers instead of international criminal masterminds, and three instead of eleven) and marched them to our local Target so that I could watch them buy my book. Seeing my book resting alongside Tim Winton and Graeme Simsion made me want to happy-cry but my colleagues advised me not to for it is a particular breed of person who cries in the local Target at 11:30am. (ie me. Everything makes me cry these days. I am Michael Stipe’s original Shiny Happy person. The shine is from my tears.) Back at the office they asked me to sign their books. As I had been signing petty cash claims earlier I didn’t panic as much as last time.
I arrived home to a lovely review by fellow Pan Maccer Annie Seaton which is full of very kind things and made me teary yet again. I can’t read it again, though I’d like to, as I have to pop off to Wednesday night social netball (it’s fun and fitness!) but you might like to have a gander.
The Claire Varley Bit In Between ‘You Can’t Stop the Blog’ Blog Tour 2015
I’m doing a blog tour all throughout the month of August! Why not jump aboard the tour bus and be my blog groupie – or bloupie – as I’m sure it is known in the biz. Continue reading
Happy Solomon Island Independence Day!
July 7 is Solomon Islands Independence day – marking the day in 1978 the country gained self-governance after nearly 90 years as a British protectorate.
A majority of The Bit in Between is set in the Solomons and I wrote it during the almost two years I lived in Isabel province. It is one of my favourite and dearest places in the world.
Hapi national day ufala evriwan blo Solo!
……. EXCERPT!
I’m not even going to pad around this – here’s an excerpt from The Bit In Between!
The rest of it (ie the whole book) comes out August 1.
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