SALES RECORDS SMASHED! In-store book-signing by author Justin Sheedy, Dymocks Broadway, Saturday 22 December 2012

Sydney author Justin Sheedy was delighted to close a highly successful 2012 with yet another sell-out book-signing in a series of such sell-out events throughout the year for his latest book ‘Nor the Years Condemn’.

On Sat 22nd December Sheedy began his day at Dymocks Broadway in central Sydney at 10am, signing copies of his book for store customers, sharing with them his passion for the great Australian story on which ‘Nor the Years Condemn’ is based. Sales of the book were so lively that all copies of the book sold out by mid-day, requiring Sheedy to race away and return with all available boxes of the book. Which then sold out. Sheedy was informed by store staff at the end of the day that he had in fact smashed all existing records for in-store event sales, a delightful end-note to a very happy day and writing year.

Sheedy had only just spent the day previous, Fri 21st December, at a similar in-store event at Dymocks North Sydney, a day beginning at 8am with a local film producer on the spot to speak with the author about a possible docu-drama based on ‘Nor the Years Condemn’. During the day Sheedy was delighted to meet and chat with Caroline Lowry, manager of Dymocks Books brand-new publishing arm, D-Publishing, who was on hand to witness Sheedy’s in-store event style in action. At the end of the day Sheedy expressed his sincere thanks to Dymocks North Sydney owner Sandra Wigzell and her exceptional staff for inviting him to this return visit to the store following on from a Fathers’ Day lead-up book-signing in August.

It has indeed been a successful year for Sheedy. ‘Nor the Years Condemn’, his second book, was published in January and promptly saw him invited to the Gloucester Writers’ Festival 2012 (resulting in a lovely interview of Sheedy by prolific Australian author Lisa Heidke). In May, ‘Nor the Years Condemn’ was stocked by Dymocks George Street Sydney who, thanks to the inspired insight of Dymocks book-buyer Ben Garland, have since re-ordered the title no less than 7 times. In the months to follow Sheedy was invited to a series of promotional civic & school talks and in-store events beginning with Dymocks North Sydney and Chatswood.

The pace of success then went up a notch for the author with his interview on the iconic John Laws Show which led to the first of Sheedy’s sell-out book-signings at Dymocks George Street Sydney – a special Remembrance Day weekend event including bagpiper and ‘The Last Post’ on trumpet – FULL STORY & PICS by Emmy Etié HERE.
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This day was closely followed by another sell-out event at Dymocks Macquarie Centre, the author’s day there concluding with a centre customer stopping to inform him that he had signed her copy of the book recently at Dymocks George Street and that she had ‘absolutely loved it from start to finish’.

During the year Sheedy has received the warmest reader responses and press reviews for ‘Nor the Years Condemn’, opening with a feature in the Byron Bay area Northern Star newspaper, then in Sydney’s Inner West Courier, Central Magazine, Parramatta Sun PS Magazine, Anzac Day issues of Sydney’s Northern District Times and North Shore Times, podcasts and radio interviews on Triple-H FM and NSB FM, also RRR FM and 2CCR FM, a heart-felt review by media presenter/pilot & mother Kathy Mexted in Australian Pilot Magazine, the year closing with the Northern District Times’ second glowing review of the book. During the year Sheedy was additionally delighted to be commissioned by the prestigious New South Wales Writers’ Centre to pen an article on his experience as an emerging Australian writer for the NSWWC Members’ online magazine. Most fittingly did the Centre entitle Sheedy’s resulting effort ‘The Power of Perseverance’, an article which was hugely well received by his fellow authors. Click the link to read...
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Readers of ‘Nor the Years Condemn’ are, as you read this, begging Sheedy for the sequel, which he is half-way through writing: ‘Ghosts of the Empire’ will be published in 2013 – but only after the author can absorb the overwhelming amount of historical and technical advice and support he is currently being showered with by kind souls from all over the globe. Sheedy would like to express his profound gratitude to ALL who have encouraged and supported him in 2012. See below for an introduction to ‘Nor the Years Condemn’ – now available at Dymocks George Street, Dymocks Macquarie Centre and North Sydney, Chatswood, Broadway, Bondi Junction, Rouse Hill and Camberwell stores, also Berkelouw Books Paddington, The Australian War Memorial, as a print-on-demand paperback at Amazon, as an ebook at Smashwords and all major ebook sites. The book is also available at Epping Library, Hornsby Library and The Stanton Library North Sydney to whose staff Sheedy is eternally grateful for their ongoing support. (Sheedy’s first book was ‘Goodbye Crackernight’, also available at Amazon, Dymocks, and through all good bookstores.)
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