Book Launch in Darwin
Only ten days until the book launch of my memoir, Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children, in Darwin at Brown's Mart on Sunday 27th May as part of the NT Wriiters Festival.
Please come if you live up that way and pass the invitation to any others you know who live there.
It is the story of my family growing up in a remote aboriginal community in western Arnhem Land, the landscape of Crocodile Dundee and provided the inspiration for my Crocodile Dreaming Series Novels.
The book is available as an ebook at the following links and soon the print version will be available at selected bookshops.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.amazon.com.au/Arnhems-Kal...
For more information go to my web page
grahamwilsonaustralianauthor.com
Please come if you live up that way and pass the invitation to any others you know who live there.
It is the story of my family growing up in a remote aboriginal community in western Arnhem Land, the landscape of Crocodile Dundee and provided the inspiration for my Crocodile Dreaming Series Novels.
The book is available as an ebook at the following links and soon the print version will be available at selected bookshops.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.amazon.com.au/Arnhems-Kal...
For more information go to my web page
grahamwilsonaustralianauthor.com
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Thanks Jennifer - even though I don't live there now it is still one of those special places - good you know it too.
More news - the NSW Writers Centre has used my booklaunch for its monthly Spotlight as per link below. Thanks to them for helping a self published author build a profile. http://www.nswwc.org.au/2018/05/spotl...
I have also been advised by Art Sound FM radio Canberra
https://artsound.fm/event/write-on/
and by Aboriginal Broadcasting Australia
http://aboriginalbroadcasting.org/
that they will both do interviews with me about this event.
If anyone has more ideas for publicity please let me know
Graham
Greetings,I don't think I will be able to attend since I live in California, but I am looking forward to reading your book.
Sue🐾
Great Sue - it would be a big ask to fly across the world however I am looking forward to hearing from you once you get to read. It has some weird and wonderful stories.
I am in Darwin now for the NT Writers Festival. Great vibe on a perfect dry at a place called Deck Bar before I walk across the road to the NT library for a book launch about a lady who walked a camel across the middle of Australia - details to follow Also I just did a radio interview with Larrakia Radio 94.5 FM
It is a great setup with a studio and a set of producers with the latest high tech gear which streams to multiple TV and radio stations across the country - thanks to Fox McLachlan and the gang there at www.aboriginalbroadcasting.org
Will post the audio on my author Facebook page shortly
(Graham Wilson Australian Author)
Another great day in Darwin with some excellent book discussion. High points included discussions on whether we can write books using characters from other cultures and a discussion by journalists about trying to keep stories fresh and interesting in the era of online everyone can tell a story. Also a great YA discussion with Alice Pung and others. As always a good story about people is the key and powerful human interest and narrative will win out.
Now looking forward to breakfast at Darwin wharf with Michelle De Kretzer before getting ready for my own book launch in the afternoon - my challenge is how to condense 140,000 words of narrative into pithy extracts that will draw others in and make them want to read on.
Just back in Sydney at at the work grind again. The book launch of my memoir on Sunday in Darwin was fabulous with lots of old friends turning up to support me.
It was done jointly with Toni Tapp Coutts whose past books "My Sunburnt Childhood" and "An Outback Life" have been great successes. I read the first one last year and the sequel is now top of my reading list.
Toni and I traded NT stories including about her adopted father Bill Tapp, one of those typical imperfect legends of the NT - a good and kindhearted man with all his flaws.
Another wonderful and memorable NT character who I met after not seeing her for over 20 years is Joanne van Os. I am now half way through reading her own memoir - an amazing and powerful story which already has me deeply moved - others should read it too 'An Outback Heart' - I think it will go down in history as one of the great true stories of the NT.
I have written a story with some remarkably similar parts in my 'Crocodile Dreaming Series'. I am glad I wrote my book series before I read hers or I would feel as if mine was a part copy. But as always fiction is a pale shadow of true life. I will post a review when I get to the end.
Graham
Interview with Macca - for those who are in Australia I am doing an interview with Macca on Australia All Over this Sunday between 8 and 9 am about this book. For those of you overseas who want to listen it should be available from the link at ABC Radio below once it goes to air.
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/...
Macca tells great stories about the Australian outback and it is worth a listen if you want to get a bit of a flavour of the bush
For anyone interested who missed the Macca interview her is a link to it as posted by one of my work friends as per below:Great interview Graham!
For those who missed it, you can find it at:
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/...
It's in 2 segments, starting 2h 48m 10s and 3h 25m 48s into the show.
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Best of luck with your launch. Your Crocodile Dreaming series sounds captivating, Jennifer