Graham Wilson's Blog: BeyondBeyondBooks, page 5

Dealing with grief

For those of us who are getting on in years or dealing with elderly friends and relatives I have just discovered a wonderful site by former SMH journalist Margaret Rice, where she both shares her own experiences and the stories of others. See link to site - https://goodgrief60.wordpress.com/aut...

She is also writing this story into a full length book and I have been privileged to read a pre-publication version. It is a wonderful and deeply moving story which I encourage you all to read and I will let you know when it is available.

Graham Wilson

Little Lost Girl Launch

In just over a day I will launch the print version of my new book - Little Lost Girl, I am delighted that so many of you have entered the giveaways for this which conclude this Friday and I will then start posting them all out to lucky winners. I would love if anyone who gets one writes a review on Goodreads. Please be honest rather than nice and if you do not enjoy it please tell me.
For the launch I will have the original photo of Jessie Grace Holmes, the 8 year old girl who died in our house about 100 years ago and whose photo was hidden for a century in the chimney. It was the finding of her photo that inspired the telling of this story, and while I have imagined another little girl, Sophie, one day I would like to rediscover the story of who was little Jessie.

Anyway I will do an update after the Book Launch is over and then turn my attention to telling more about some of the other great Australian stories I have read recently

More to follow soon

Graham

Book Launch - Little Lost Girl

A book launch of my new book 'Little Lost Girls' is going ahead at the Balmain Watch House on Darling Street on the evening of Thursday 23rd February. More details will be uploaded to this page shortly. Hope to see as many of you there as can make it!!
For information on the book go to my Amazon or Smashwords pages as per links: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01N0NODXJ
For information on the Balmain Watchouse see link https://www.facebook.com/balmainwatch...

Northern Territory Stories

For any of my blog readers I would love to hear from any of you who have been to the NT or are interested in its stories - particularly if you have stories of you own - even just tiny anecdotes

Speaking of the NT last year I read a great book set there, on Killarney Station - 'A Sunburnt Childhood' by Toni Tapp Coutts. This tells a wonderful and authentic story of a child growing up on a remote NT cattle station, and of the people, both black and white who lived there. If you have not read it I encourage you to do so and if you had this author has a new book "My Outback Life' coming out around March, which I will be buying

Happy reading

Graham Wilson

A year on

A year has gone by and I realise I have posted nothing further on this site. I have also not written anything really new except the first few chapters of my new novel, Risk Free, which is a story about corporate greed. I started it as a November NaNoWriMo novel, plan to launch a big effort in Feb to progress. However I have done a heap of work editing previous novels - with new covers and hence a new version of my previous 'The Old Balmain House' novel with new covers that I love designed by Nada Backovic. Previous version was an ebook bestseller on Amazon in Australian historical fiction for much of 2016, (thank to Amazon for support). I am now planning a book launch for this renamed book in local Sydney bookshops in February 2017, with others in series to follow later in year.

Enough about my writing. I continue to enjoy reading and particularly have developed a taste for English Fiction - having loved books by Katherine Webb - particularly 'Half Forgotten Song'. Two other good reads over Christmas were 'The Dry' by Jane Harper -loved the descriptions of austere Oz landscape, and 'I See You' by Claire Mackintosh, a gripping story about how information on social media can be used by predators. This year I will turn my attention more to North American Fiction - keen to hear from others about what they think is best new dramatic writing.

Graham Wilson

Why this blog

I am an author of nine books, a memoir and two series of novels. However I have also been a keen reader all my remembered life, ever since discovering and reading my first Famous Five novel, tucked in an obscure corner of a holiday house in a place called Kangaroo Valley on the south coast of NSW. Other wonderful reading memories are being one of five children gathered around my mother on a Sunday afternoon when she read King Solomon's Mines and about Mowgli in the Jungle Book. That was a long time ago but the magic of being lost in a story has never left me.

So the purpose of these posts which I will try to do each week is to tell of some memorable occasions where what I have read has fired my imagination.

I will not talk about my own books - they are listed on my author page for anyone who wants to read them.

I encourage you too to share your magic book and reading memories.

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