News | Posted by Carole on Saturday 31 March 2007
Dragon Moon is in the shops now! (In Australia) And I am going on a little tour to celebrate. I will be in Sydney first.
Monday 2 April at the Children’s Bookshop in Beecroft at 6.30pm. Click here to see the information about this free event on their website.
The following week I will be in Adelaide.
Thursday 12 April at 6pm Dymocks on Rundle Mall
I’ll be talking about Dragon Moon and the Dragonkeeper trilogy, and I can sign books if anyone wants me to. So if you can get to either of those bookshops, come and say hello.
Back in Melbourne, there will be an official launch for Dragon Moon on Sunday 22 April at 3pm (location tba). I will also be visiting the following Melbourne bookshops.
Mon 23 April 5pm Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd
Sat 28 April 11am Readings Port Melbourne 253 Bay St
Sat 5 May 11am Mockingbird Bookshop 377 Mont Albert Road.
Website | Posted by Webmaster on Friday 30 March 2007
Two things: I’ve just added a Dragon Moon page (and updated the menu to the left of your screen) and upgraded Carole’s blogging software.
If anyone has problems adding comments or notices anything weird happening with the blog page, please email me.
News | Posted by Carole on Thursday 29 March 2007
Today we had the first event to launch Dragon Moon. It was held at Ruyton Girls School and there were students from Genazzano College and Trinity Grammar as well.
Everyone was put in the proper mood by Shen Peng who played the ancient Chinese instrument called the erhu. He played beautiful music, all achieved with just two strings!
Then Andrew and Maryann from black dog books and myself gave a talk about the process of producing a book. The Ruyton girls had been asked to write about Dragonkeeper and librarian Mrs Perrini chose Faith to read out her piece, which was lovely. Faith then was given the task of launching the book by banging a gong!
I can only post a photo of me and the erhu player at this stage, as I don’t have permisson yet to post photos of the students. I will add more photos if I get permission.
News, Writing | Posted by Carole on Thursday 29 March 2007
I’ve finished my latest draft of my latest book. This is the first weekend that I haven’t had work to do for ages. And there’s even an extra hour as daylight saving just finished. I have spare time.
Most writers start off writing in their spare time while they work at a Proper Job. I did that for quite a few years. So when writing becomes your job (not a proper one obviously), what do you do in your spare time? The temptation is to write a bit more. Today I’ve done some gardening, learned some Chinese characters, people dropped in for lunch and its still only 2.30. Now I’m tempted to do some filing. I think I’ve forgotten how to relax.
News | Posted by Carole on Wednesday 7 March 2007
I have had some enquiries from readers in America and Canada about the publication of my books over there. I now have some firm dates.
Dragon Keeper paperback April 2007
Garden of the Purple Dragon hardcover July 2007
Garden of the Purple Dragon paperback April 2008
Dragon Moon hardcover July 2008
Website | Posted by Webmaster on Monday 5 March 2007
The German cover for Garden of the Purple Dragon has been added to the site — you can see it here.
News | Posted by Carole on Sunday 4 March 2007
My publisher tells me that Dragon Moon will be in the bookshops on 27 March in Australia. It may take a few days for them to get them out of the boxes and onto the shelves.
