Topic: what I'm up to
Yes, I'm back in Australia and in webland. We returned safely from our big holiday to Holland and then we got sick with bugs that came from the hospital my husband works in, very generous of him to share them around. Then, once back to normal life, we had to pack children off to school for 2009, then on to camps and then I had to go and get back on a plane and fly to Adelaide and here I am!!!
2009 is indeed the year of airports for the Booths.
I am doing a residency with the May Gibbs Literature Trust for 4 weeks. I'm the only one here, my family are in Tassie! I get my computer all to myself so I have been writing my novel and working out family tree's for the characters and plotting out their lives.
I have also been working on illustrations of a frustrated chicken who hates laying eggs and tries to ignore the inevitable with disasterous results! All ends sweetly. I'm hoping to find a home for it somewhere.
Off to Victor Harbour to meet the kids at the school there and do art stuff and writing with them during the week, it will be wonderful.
Oh, and my new book KIP is being launched in April. Come if you can. There is a sneak peek in Adelaide on March 22nd (check out the May Gibbs Literature Trust site for details, you need to RSVP, it's a brunch, yum!) The offical launch is in Launceston at the Children's Library in the city, 10.30 am, Saturday April the 4th, and, if you work in a school there is a bit of a happy hour sneak peek the night before, 4.30pm Launceston Library, Friday, April the 3rd. Drinks and nibbles to start (please rsvp to the Library), hope you can come to one of these events and help me celebrate Kip!
Stay well,
Christina
