Lian Tanner's Blog, page 24

The Keepers dress-up competition!

To celebrate the fact that all three books in the Keepers trilogy are now available, we are having a new competition! It was inspired by 11-year-old Maddy Lohse, whose father sent me a photo of Maddy dressed as Goldie No One for her school Book Week. It was such a great photo that I put...

My very creative readers

I’ve already received some very interesting items in response to my previous post. And I am forced to conclude that my readers are extremely creative and clever people. I’m also starting to think that I might turn this into a competition. Is just before Christmas a good time to run it? Hmm, I’ll think about...

A message from Goldie No One …

I had a great message left on my blog a few weeks ago. It was from an 11-year-old girl called Maddy Lohse, and here’s what she said: ‘Sometimes I act like Goldie in trying to be like a shadow. I dressed up as her for our book week at school. Lots of kids kept asking...

Path of Beasts – the Launceston launch

My apologies for being so far behind with these photos – my camera died halfway through the Launceston launch, so I had to borrow someone else’s. And before their photos arrived, I went off to Sydney and Brisbane to talk to schools, and then up to the Daintree rainforest for a holiday. (More about that...

Highlights of the Hobart launch

Thanks to one of my very generous friends, Glenn Jeffrey, we have a video of the Hobart launch of Path of Beasts. Glenn has edited it down to highlights, which include the entrance of the mystery guest – who of course is no longer a mystery now that you have read the previous post. (You...

Path of Beasts – the Hobart launch

We had a brilliant launch of Path of Beasts last Sunday morning in the Baha’i Centre. So far I’ve only got a few photos, but I’ll put those up now, and next week I should be able to put up a highlights video. We had some gorgeous costumes, a wonderful Path of Beasts guard of...

Fourth character cards giveaway!

It’s just as well the publishers sent me a nice big bundle of these cards – it’s such fun giving them away. But this will probably be my last go for a while, so get in quickly. Today, to celebrate the fact that Path of Beasts will be released in the US this week, I’m...

‘Path of Beasts’ – your reviews

Now that Path of Beasts is available in Australia and nearly available in the US, I’ve decided that it would be interesting to have a page where readers can put up their own reviews. This is it! I don’t just mean that this is where you write ‘Terrific book. Loved it!’ or ‘Utterly vile book....

Third character cards giveaway!

I said I’d do another one, so here it is. This may be your last chance to get hold of a set of these terrific cards from Allen & Unwin, my Australian publisher. (Or then again, I MAY do one more.) So leave a message and tell me if you want them. So far, they’ve...

Path of Beasts is now available in Australia

Yes, it has arrived in the shops. How exciting! Here’s how one reader reacted when she first received it from the hands of the author (that’s me in the stripy cardigan). I hope everyone else loves it just as much. And here’s me again, talking (and over-acting dreadfully) about what’s in store for you when...