Lewis Woolston's Blog, page 2
December 15, 2023
Fitzroy Library
My second book "Remembering the Dead and Other Stories" is now available to borrow at Fitzroy Public Library in Melbourne.
If you live in the area and have a library card why not check it out?
If you live in the area and have a library card why not check it out?
November 4, 2023
Maylands Public Library
Another public library now has one of my books!
One of the happiest things that happens to writers is when a library gets one of their books and has it available to the public.
This time it's Maylands Public Library in Perth, Western Australia. They now have a copy of my second book "Remembering the Dead and Other Stories" for public borrowing.
If you live in that part of the world check it out. If you don't, why not ask your local public library if they can get one of my books in.
And please everyone, remember to support your local public library!
One of the happiest things that happens to writers is when a library gets one of their books and has it available to the public.
This time it's Maylands Public Library in Perth, Western Australia. They now have a copy of my second book "Remembering the Dead and Other Stories" for public borrowing.
If you live in that part of the world check it out. If you don't, why not ask your local public library if they can get one of my books in.
And please everyone, remember to support your local public library!
August 1, 2023
Tooky's Mag Book Club
The lads at Tooky's Mag have done a little book club video on Youtube. They decided to discuss my first book "The Last Free Man and Other Stories"
Link below..
https://youtu.be/oOxH4oy2wwc
Link below..
https://youtu.be/oOxH4oy2wwc
July 13, 2023
Fremantle Public Library
Just a quick note for anyone who is interested and/or lives in the area. Fremantle Public Library now has a copy of "Remembering the Dead and Other Stories" available to borrow.
Support your local public library!
Support your local public library!
June 14, 2023
Looking for reviewers
Hi all,
So i've got a couple of promo copies of my second book "Remembering the Dead and Other Stories" that i can give away to reviewers here on Goodreads.
If you're interested in reading my book and writing a review please message me and i'll get it in the mail for you.
Probably best if we stick to people in Australia for this, overseas postage is too damn expensive.
So i've got a couple of promo copies of my second book "Remembering the Dead and Other Stories" that i can give away to reviewers here on Goodreads.
If you're interested in reading my book and writing a review please message me and i'll get it in the mail for you.
Probably best if we stick to people in Australia for this, overseas postage is too damn expensive.
April 24, 2023
Public Library News
I love public libraries!
I was mostly educated via public libraries and i am a big believer in their value to the wider community.
So i'm super happy to announce that my first book is now available to borrow at the Newcastle Public Library (NSW)
If you live in the area why not check it out?
Also, support your local library wherever you live
I was mostly educated via public libraries and i am a big believer in their value to the wider community.
So i'm super happy to announce that my first book is now available to borrow at the Newcastle Public Library (NSW)
If you live in the area why not check it out?
Also, support your local library wherever you live
February 6, 2023
New Story
So if anyone is interested the lads at Tooky's Mag have published a previously unpublished story of mine called "The Sultan of Sydney University" and it's on their Substack if you'd like to check it out.
They also got me to record myself reading the story and have put the recording to some groovy images and published it on Youtube if you prefer you fiction in the audio-visual format.
They also got me to record myself reading the story and have put the recording to some groovy images and published it on Youtube if you prefer you fiction in the audio-visual format.
New Story
So if anyone is interested the lads at Tooky's Mag have published a previously unpublished story of mine called "The Sultan of Sydney University" and it's on their Substack if you'd like to check it out.
They also got me to record myself reading the story and have put the recording to some groovy images and published it on Youtube if you prefer you fiction in the audio-visual format.
They also got me to record myself reading the story and have put the recording to some groovy images and published it on Youtube if you prefer you fiction in the audio-visual format.
November 30, 2022
Podcast Interview
For anyone who is interested i recently did an interview with the Unreal Press Podcast. We mostly talked about my first book "The Last Free Man and Other Stories" and how it came about etc.
If you are interested in hearing it you can find it on Youtube, just type in "Lewis Woolston" into the search bar or else go directly to the Unreal Press Podcast website.
If you are interested in hearing it you can find it on Youtube, just type in "Lewis Woolston" into the search bar or else go directly to the Unreal Press Podcast website.
October 25, 2022
Three Years!
So today marks three years since the release of my first book The Last Free Man and Other Stories.
I felt then and still feel a huge sense of accomplishment about this. I have barely a High School education, i have never done a creative writing course and have spent most of my life battling against the odds yet here i am, a published author.
The book went on to be shortlisted for the Chief Minister's NT Book Awards in 2020.
People are still reading it and i recently did an interview with a podcaster about it.
The genesis of the book was a sort of mid-life crisis i had.
I had hit the age of 32 and realized that i wasn't drastically better off than i'd been at 22. I got depressed and spat the dummy with mainstream society. I left the city and went to live and work at a roadhouse on the Nullarbor. I felt better almost as soon as i got out of society and gave up caring about it...funny that.
While i was living and working in the middle of nowhere i decided to try writing a book. I'd always been a big reader and half thought of writing one day but i finally got serious about it.
I tried writing genre fiction first....i was terrible at it.
I wrote a science fiction novel that was just awful.
I wrote a crime fiction novel that was also awful.
I deleted them both and thought very hard about what i was doing.
While i was doing this i read the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham for the first time. They were brilliant! His knack for telling the tales of odd people in remote parts of the British Empire was sublime.
Then a thought occurred to me...
What if i wrote short stories about the people and experiences i'd had out here on the Nullarbor?
Something went "click" in my brain and the stories that became my first book started coming out thick and fast.
And here we are three years later.
I felt then and still feel a huge sense of accomplishment about this. I have barely a High School education, i have never done a creative writing course and have spent most of my life battling against the odds yet here i am, a published author.
The book went on to be shortlisted for the Chief Minister's NT Book Awards in 2020.
People are still reading it and i recently did an interview with a podcaster about it.
The genesis of the book was a sort of mid-life crisis i had.
I had hit the age of 32 and realized that i wasn't drastically better off than i'd been at 22. I got depressed and spat the dummy with mainstream society. I left the city and went to live and work at a roadhouse on the Nullarbor. I felt better almost as soon as i got out of society and gave up caring about it...funny that.
While i was living and working in the middle of nowhere i decided to try writing a book. I'd always been a big reader and half thought of writing one day but i finally got serious about it.
I tried writing genre fiction first....i was terrible at it.
I wrote a science fiction novel that was just awful.
I wrote a crime fiction novel that was also awful.
I deleted them both and thought very hard about what i was doing.
While i was doing this i read the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham for the first time. They were brilliant! His knack for telling the tales of odd people in remote parts of the British Empire was sublime.
Then a thought occurred to me...
What if i wrote short stories about the people and experiences i'd had out here on the Nullarbor?
Something went "click" in my brain and the stories that became my first book started coming out thick and fast.
And here we are three years later.
