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When my publisher Sophie Hamley from Hachette Australia rang to say that they would like to offer me\u00a0a contract to write a second book in May 2016, \u00a0to deliver of a manuscript of 75 000+ words by 1 December.\u00a0I\u00a0doubted that I could\u00a0 do it – it took me 14 years to write A Sunburnt Childhood<\/em>.’\u00a0\u00a0Then I\u00a0thought – bugger it!\u00a0 Just go for it.\u00a0 Not many sixty year olds get this opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0So I resigned from my job\u00a0in July and went hell for leather for a first draft for My Outback Life\u00a0<\/em>– which I did by mid October – it then went back to the editor and back to me and I delivered\u00a0a rough but not too bad a manuscript.\u00a0A series of questions and final edit in January and\u00a0finally – you have to wave good bye to your baby on its first day to school with lots of trepidation and a lump in your throat!<\/p>\n

The second book is\u00a0harder – well it was for me because\u00a0A Sunburnt<\/em> Childhood<\/em> became a bestseller and got rave reviews including being named the best biography in 2017, by Country Style<\/em> Magazine and the bestselling Memoir for Hachette Australia. The\u00a0doubts and questions bombarded my\u00a0head –\u00a0 Is this a good story? Will people like it? Am I going to upset anyone this time? (I did in My Sunburnt Childhood<\/em>) Will it sell enough?<\/p>\n

Well there is not point worrying now\u00a0is there?<\/p>\n

All I\u00a0 can say is,\u00a0I hope you love it and please let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Author biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toni Tapp Coutts, the eldest of ten children, grew up on the Tapp Family cattle station in the Katherine region. She has been a member of Katherine Region of Writers (KROW) for over 20 years and has been a\u00a0board member of the Northern Territory Writers Centre. Toni has been\u00a0published in Meanjin, NT Literary Awards, NT Children’s Anthology and has had her works performed on ABC Radio and Radio National. She has contributed to seven KROW anthologies. In 2010, Toni self-published the biography Bill Tapp Cattle King and was awarded a Varuna residency in 2009 to work on her memoir ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’ published by Hachette in 2016.<\/p>\n

To hear Toni’s Conversation with Richard Fidler on the 24 March 2016 – click here<\/a><\/p>\n

Toni is married with three children and three grandchildren, and lives in Katherine NT.\u00a0She and her husband Shaun worked on cattle stations through the eighties and nineties before moving to live in Katherine (population 10,000) in 1995 where she owned a small dress boutique.<\/p>\n

Toni, an Alderman on the Katherine Town Council,\u00a0has served on a wide variety of local boards and committees. She is a member of the Katherine Museum and Katherine Community Markets, and has organised and participated in many local festivals and events including the Katherine Flying Fox Festival, the Fringe Festival and Barunga Festival, one of the largest Indigenous festivals in the NT.<\/p>\n

Toni’s biggest challenge was overcoming breast cancer and a major spinal infection in 2013-2014. During this time she formed a lobby group to establish a Chemotherapy unit and a Cancer Support office in Katherine (320kms south of Darwin).<\/p>\n

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