Well, here I am again! I’ve packed, unpacked, settled in,
and done all the ‘things you do’ in a new place. (Refer to my first blog post,
Getting Started, i.e. Why I began a blog. – Apart from the minor detail that I love
writing anything from novels to shopping lists!)
My latest novel arrived today! – and hopefully will be in the
shops very soon. I notice it is on order in the big ones! It’s called Lantern Light, as I mentioned in another
life (well, another suburb anyway but it feels like another life.) Hopefully
I’ll manage to get its photo on facebook. It’s the book with the nice green
jungle photo on the cover.
It’s a fictitious story set in a real place – the school
where I taught in New Ireland (PNG). A truly beautiful place. An amazingly
English style school, with an English headmistress (who gave me permission to
use the school as a setting). It’s also set in Brisbane during the 1974 floods
and I even went to the Public Library to research it thoroughly (despite having
watched it from the safety of my lounge room on our old TV soon after my own
return from New Ireland). So the setting, place and ‘history’ are real. The
story and characters are not. It’s romance, adventure and inspirational – with
lots of suspense. You can see the Word website if you want to know more about
the actual story.
Lantern Light will
be available in Koorong, Word and other Christian book stores. Hopefully
Dymocks too. I’ll sell it myself as
well.
The title Lantern
Light is inspired by the wonderful evenings we had, we teachers in the
school there, talking by the light of a hurricane lantern after the school
generator went off at 9pm. We made really
close friends in that cosy setting. (As I have said, I am still close friends
with two of my PNG friends.)
I’m doing my first-ever book signing at the Cleveland
Christian Book Centre on Friday 19th December.
So – I’d better leave it at that for now.
I hope to be back on line before Christmas. I hope it’s a
happy and blessed one for you all, just in case I’m not back in time.
