Hello World<\/p>\n
My intention was to be blogging my heart out but months have now flown by and not a word written!\u00a0 I have though, written a whole new book in less than six months which went to print this week and will hit the stands at the end of March. WOW!<\/p>\n
When my publisher Hachette Australia offered me a contract to write a second book in May 2016,and to deliver of a manuscript of 75 000+ words by 1 December.\u00a0I\u00a0thought I could not do it – it took me 14 years to write A Sunburnt Childhood<\/em>.’\u00a0\u00a0Then thought – 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 Sunburnt<\/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