Delighted to announce that I’ll be appearing as guest author speaker for a very special evening with the French-Speaking Association of the North Shore (FANS) in Killarney Heights, Sydney, on Thursday July 30. I’ll be talking about my books and writing, my life as a French Australian, and lots more! There’ll be drinks and canapes, and Gleebooks will be there to sell my books, too. Hope to meet lots of readers!
Lovely double celebration last night in beautiful bookshop, Reader’s Companion in Armidale, for both In The Paris Fashion and The Fishmonger and the Pastry Chef!
There’s going to be a lot of events coming up in March for me!
March 1: Paperback edition of Satin is released by MidnightSun Publishing.
March 5: Publication day of Bold Ben Hall (Walker Books)
March 8: Signing morning for Bold Ben Hall at Collins Booksellers, Armidale.
March 12: Talk at the State Library of NSW for The Society of Women Writers NSW–my talk, which is part of festivities around the 100th anniversary of the Society, will be around my French and Australian inspirations.
March 13: Two events at Goulburn Library: a morning Storytime event for kids, focussed around Satin and Cockadoodledoo; and an evening talk and Q and A for adults, centred on A Secret Garden in Paris.
I’m really looking forward to two wonderful events that are going to be held in November, one in Armidale, one in Sydney, to celebrate the release of my new Sophie Beaumont book, A Secret Garden in Paris.
The first is the hometown launch, in Armidale, on Saturday November 9, at 2pm, and it’s going to be at the gorgeous Cafe Patisserie, where last year we had a fabulous launch for The Paris Cooking School. As with last year, our great independent bookshop, Reader’s Companion will be there to sell books, and there’ll be French wine, and other drinks, and little garden/spring inspired cakes created by Nathan at Cafe Patisserie, it’s going to be a lot of fun! Invitation is below the text of this post–all welcome!
The second will be held in Sydney, at Five Dock Library, on Thursday November 21, starting at 5.30 pm, and the fantastic Sydney independent bookshop, Better Read than Dead, will be there to sell book. There’ll be light refreshments, a talk from me about the book, and then book signing! All very welcome! The event is free, but you need to register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-sophie-beaumont-tickets-956990011887
I’m so looking forward to talking about The Paris Cooking School at the lovely Makers’ Shed in Glen Innes on April 20–such a beautiful venue, and always such a warm welcome!
I’ve just come back from a lovely few days in Sydney, visiting fantastic bookshops, talking to enthusiastic booksellers, signing piles of copies of The Paris Cooking School and talking at a fabulous event at the Alliance Française, presented by Sydney-based French writer Olivier Vojetta. It’s been an absolutely invigorating, fun and exciting time, culminating in discovering at Sydney Airport that my book was number three bestselling book in their very popular bookshop! Here are a few pics from this week.
I’m heading off to Sydney in a couple of days, and one of the highlights will be the official in person launch of Satin, next Tuesday, March 14, at 4pm at the gorgeous Better Read than Dead bookshop in Newton. Lorena and I will both be there, to read from and talk about the book, sign books, and meet readers! Everyone is very welcome, we’d love to see you there! It’s a free event but the bookshop would appreciate it if people can register if possible(though of course you can also just turn up, if you run out of time) Here’s the registration link.
We’ll also be celebrating Satin through school visits, organised by the wonderful people at The Children’s Bookshop. And calling into city bookshops to say hi. It’s going to be a great week!
And those reviews just keep coming–we had another couple of lovely ones very recently, here and here. Seems readers are really taking Satin to their hearts, which warms our hearts, too…
The rest of the program is great too, with sessions on true crime, historical fiction, how to get a book project back on track, and more. See the full program here. Concurrently with the Festival also is the High Country Writers’ Retreat.
I am much looking forward to the Dubbo Writers’ Festival, which is on this coming weekend, 9-11 September, in Dubbo of course! The theme is ‘Shorts’–with a feast of practical workshops on short fiction, short poetry, short blog posts, as well as consultations with publishers, an In-Conversation, and a ‘submissions spur’. I’m presenting at several events, see below. You can get tickets and the full program via this link here.
I’m really looking forward to the 2021 conference of the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, which this year is fully online, and happening over two weekends, with bootcamps, manuscript assessments and masterclasses happening on the weekend of 16/17 October, and the main conference program on the weekend of 23 and 24 October. This is the first time the conference has been run online–it was a decision HNSA wisely made early this year, given the uncertainty surrounding the running of events.
HNSA runs absolutely wonderful conferences, and over the years I’ve had the privilege several times of presenting at these biennial events. This year is no exception, and I’m going to be appearing on both weekends, as part of an absolutely amazing program which I’m very proud to be involved in. Wearing my publisher hat, I’m going to be presenting the all-day Publishing Bootcamp on October 16, then, also wearing the publishing hat, I’ll be one of the judges in the popular First Pages Pitch Contest on October 23. Later on October 23 (quite late in fact!) I’ll be one of a group of people talking about translating historical novels in the Lost in Translation panel: I’ll be focussing there about the experience of being involved in helping to bring about the publication of a brand new English translation of the wonderful Jules Verne’s Mikhail Strogoff. Then on October 24 I’m chairing a panel called The Dark Heart, which looks at historical novels set in the 1830’s and 40’s in Australia, especially the convict period. It’s certainly going to be a very busy couple of weekends!
Check out all details of the wonderful program for the 2021 HNSA Conference here: it’s a real cornucopia of fabulous offerings! And of course, because it’s virtual, you can access it from anywhere. Registrations are open now: don’t miss out!
Feathers of the Firebird 