I could be more grateful. Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to be invited to Anna’s Shop Around the Corner in Cronulla south of Sydney to talk about my novel The True Story of Maddie Bright. Anna’s is a second-hand bookstore and cafe run by Anna Loder who loves to read.
Read MoreI contacted the book’s production editor. Within two minutes, I had an email from my publisher—then in London, as I recall—to say the novel was perfect. It was not time to restructure. It was time to press print.
Read MoreI have spent the seven days since it happened trying to understand. I’m sure you have too. The internet is to blame, the far right is to blame, gun laws are to blame, our leaders are to blame. Never I am to blame. But of course I am. We all are.
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