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!
Lovely double celebration!
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A wonderful publication week for In the Paris Fashion!
It’s been a lovely publication week for In the Paris Fashion, with bookshop signings and celebrations, and some great first reviews of the book, in the latest issue of the Australian Women’s Weekly and the latest issue of Who magazine. It’s off to a fantastic start!
Wonderful bookshop tour of Sydney!
Last week, I did a wonderful tour of Sydney bookshops with Lorena Carrington, fabulous illustrator and co-creator of our picture book The Giant. On foot, by train and by bus, we went to several of Sydney’s best bookshops, including, in the CBD, Abbeys, Kinokuniya, and Dymocks George St, plus Harry Hartog in Bondi Junction, Gleebooks in Glebe and Berkelouw in Leichhardt. Everywhere we received a warm welcome, and the culmination was a wonderful event for the book at the fabulous bookshop Better Read than Dead in Newtown, where the fantastic author Ursula Dubosarsky launched it into the world, our lovely publisher Anna Solding of MidnightSun Publishing attended, coming all the way from Adelaide, and a warm supportive crowd came to share the celebration with us! It was all so much fun and we are so grateful for all the warm support of booksellers, readers, and fellow creators for our gentle Giant!
Signing books in our local bookshops!
Had a lovely time last Thursday signing copies of A Secret Garden in Paris in our fabulous local Armidale bookshops: Reader’s Companion (thank you, Michelle and Chelsea!) and Collins Booksellers(thank you, Georgina!) Here are a few pics from that day.
The Paris Cooking School (North American edition) on Barnes and Noble pre-order promotion!
To all my North American readers: I’m thrilled to announce that for one week only, from July 10 to July 17, The Paris Cooking School is included in Barnes and Noble’s fabulous Tale for the Ages–wait, no, that should be Sale for the Pages!! In this great pre-order promotion, you can get 25 percent off, including print, audiobook and ebook formats. The perfect opportunity to grab your own copy early! See pic below for details.
The Paris Cooking School comes out in the USA and Canada on August 6, published by lovely Alcove Press. Very exciting!
The Paris Cooking School in Australian airports
Seems that The Paris Cooking School has been making a prominent appearance in airports around the country, and friends have been sending me pictures of it to illustrate that! Here’s a selection, just for fun 🙂
Gorgeous local launch for The Paris Cooking School!
Had an absolutely wonderful time at the absolutely gorgeous local launch, in my home town of Armidale, of The Paris Cooking School , which was held at beautiful Cafe Patisserie Armidale, in collaboration with fantastic Reader’s Companion. A big, warm, lively crowd attended, champagne(the real thing!) flowed, gorgeous mini strawberry tarts and mini eclairs created by master patissier Nathan Walker disappeared like lightning, and many many books were bought! was very busy signing and chatting to all the lovely people who came, some who I know personally, many others who don’t know me but were intrigued by the sound of the book, which they had heard about from the local press, radio and word of mouth!
Thank you so much to Nathan and Enora from Cafe Patisserie, to Michelle from Reader’s Companion, and to everyone who came. You made it such a superlative event and I am still on cloud nine about it!
A fantastic few days in Sydney, visiting bookshops and being interviewed!
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.
Feathers of the Firebird 