Decadence, who is fast becoming our author event specialist, ducked out at lunchtime last Tuesday to attend one of Diana Gabaldon’s Sydney events.
In what is sadly becoming a book signing tradition for me, I missed my train to the city and had to wait half an hour for the next one, which would hopefully still get me to North Sydney before 1pm, but leave me right at the end of the queue.
Stanton Library is at the top of a hill I used to walk up to get to work a few years ago, so in my defence I was younger then and wasn’t carrying 6 very thick and heavy books, even if they are all mass market editions.
I had almost made it to the library when I was ushered into the neighbouring council chambers and up the stairs to their meeting room. I found a seat with a few minutes to spare before Diana arrived. I looked around and even though I’d heard about a friend’s experience in Melbourne, I was still surprised to notice that most of the crowd consisted of middle aged women. I noticed a small group of girls closer to my own age and two very brave and intrepid men.
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Source: Bronwyn Parry
What do you do when one of your favourite authors visits your library? You talk about books, of course!
When I arrived—half an hour late and with the Lilliputians in tow—to Books Alive author Bronwyn Parry’s meet and greet at Ultimo Library, it seems I may have interrupted an animated discussion about books. I felt a little awkward, butting into the conversation, but it’s almost impossible to hang out with book lovers and not be caught up in the discussion.
Located near the library entrance, Bron’s table was the first thing I saw as I walked through the doors. Seated at a large, round table were Bronwyn Parry, Louisa Dear (her publicist), Vassiliki (our librarian host), and a couple of us readers.
It was a far cry from Decadence’s recent author signing experience, but it made for a much more intimate experience. For someone long past her teenybopper years,
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Bronwyn Parry at Ultimo Library
Books Alive author Bronwyn Parry will be at Ultimo Library tomorrow from 5pm-6pm. Come along for a chat, and bring your books or buy one on the day and have them signed. More details at the City of Sydney’s What’s On website.
Australian release for Night’s Cold Kiss
Night’s Cold Kiss, the debut novel by Australian author Tracey O’Hara, will be published locally by HarperCollins Australia. The website shows Sept 22 as the release date, so it should be in stores soon.
Coming soon from C. L. Wilson
One of my most anticipated books of the year, the Queen of Song and Souls by C. L. Wilson, is scheduled for release on October 27. (You can read an excerpt here.) I’m told that the book became much longer than anticipated and had to be split, so this will be book 3 in the Tairen Soul quartet. The last book will be called Tairen Soul, which gives it a lovely bit of symmetry, given that it was the original name for the first book, which then had to be split into Lord of the Fading Lands and Lady of Light and Shadows.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon with Wandergurl at Galaxy Bookshop (24/2/09)
Tuesday was the Kenyon booksigning at Galaxy books, which I live tweeted. I was quite lucky that my shift ended at 4.30pm that day, so I didn’t end up there too late. When I got there, Sofia who organised it all for Galaxy and was at ARRC, hugged me and said, “Where have you been!?!” There was a line that reached the back of the store and sort of curled a little. I went to register at the front and found out that if we had actually gone by number, I would have been number 5. Kat would have been something like number 8 because I registered five of us together.
I didn’t go straight to the back of the line, but ended up chatting with Decadence and Lami, who had been there since 4pm and had already gotten stuff signed. I had a nice chat with Dianna Love, and I got her to sign Phantom In The Night, which I later forgot to get Sherrilyn to sign.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon book signing at Galaxy Bookshop (24/2/09)
On the train into the city, I picked up where I left off weeks ago in Midnight Kiss Goodbye, Dianna Love’s contribution to the Dead After Dark anthology (which I stopped because I wasn’t in the right headspace at the time—it’s not a reflection on Dianna because I actually liked the story this time around). Then I got to the end of the story and the thwarted villain says to Ekkbar, the weaselly double-crossing magician blamed for the failure, “Give me one reason I should not spend the rest of eternity in this dung pit slicing a strip off your skinny hide daily and making you fry it for my meal.”
I was disturbed to think this came out of the bubbly, energetic, upbeat blonde I met in Melbourne. Scary, scary Dianna.
The signing was moved forward from 5.30 to 4.30,
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