One week till the Sunker launch …

Only a week to go, and I am almost too busy to scratch  myself. There are copies of the new book to be sent off, school groups to be talked to, fish to be made, reviewers to be chased and presents to be bought. There are disability ramps and lifts to be organised for people who can’t walk up all those stairs, portholes to be transported, fish to be collected from the local primary school, invitations to be handed out, more books to give out, little signs to be made and large quantities of gaffer tape to be bought (you can NEVER have enough gaffer tape). There are small things, like should I get a haircut, and what am I going to wear, and WHAT IF NO ONE COMES?

And then of course there’s the third book, which is due to be handed in this coming Friday – and I STILL DON’T HAVE A FINAL SCENE.

Not that I’m panicking or anything …

I’ve heard from two people who’ve read Sunker so far – and both of them have loved it. What’s more, it has just been shortlisted for K-Zone and Total Girl’s Toy of the Year Award, in the Boy Book category. Now this seems fairly weird, because it’s not a toy and I wouldn’t have described it as a boy book, either. It’s an everyone book. But it’s very nice to be shortlisted all the same, and maybe it’ll get me some new readers.

If you’d like to help, go to http://toy-awards.com.au/, click on ‘Boy Books’, and vote for Sunker’s Deep. And ask your friends to vote. And your relatives. And their relatives. And total strangers in the street. And maybe your dog as well. Do you have a guinea pig? Or a white mouse? I’m sure they’d be eligible to vote too!

Now, back to book 3 …