This week began wonderfully with the simultaneous (!) arrival of the new issue of The Big Issue with my short memoir in it + just printed copies of the forthcoming anthology I co-edited with Maria Katsonis. Can it get better?…
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This week started really well, with the new issue of The Lifted Brow arriving in my mail box with my short memoir ‘Diamonds in the Red Alley’ in it about my childhood in the Soviet Union. http://theliftedbrow.myshopify.com/…/pr…/the-lifted-brow-30……
And recently these bookmarks arrived in my mail box… Now it feels more real that in August I’ll have my next book out.
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A super-talented surrealist artist from Queensland, Eric Morgan, decided to paint my portrait, as inspired by his reading of my memoir The Dangerous Bride. I am really moved by his response to my book. 
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Now this is truly exciting! The cover of the anthology of Australian female memoir Rebellious Daughters, which I’m co-editing with the author Maria Katsonis, is finally ready! The book will be out in August but already I can look …
So recently I blogged about writing in cafes, and then an American writer who read that post and who blogs about writers writing in cafes (!) asked to interview me and to have my photo where I’m seen writing in …