I-Day
Yes, Leigon of Fans (LOF), as all four of you may know, today (August 1) marks the official release of my sixth novel, IVORY. I know several of you eager beavers have already been down to your local Big W and bought a copy - and for that I thank you.Not only is IVORY out in print, but it's also being released today as an audio book by my very good friends at Bolinda.
If you're housebound or one of our overseas legionnaires (or if you just can't tear yourself away from my blog for more than a few minutes) you might like to check out Aussie online bookseller Booktopia.com.au which is selling signed copies of IVORY over the 'net. I went to their offices and signed about a million books (just kidding - a sizeable number, but not that many) last week.
If you click on the cover picture of IVORY on the Booktopia site you'll also find your way to a short audio interview in which I talk about the book. It's like a mini version of one of my podcasts, minus the school boy humour.
Mrs Blog and I hosted the launch of IVORY for family and friends on Thursday night in the St James Hotel in Sydney. All I can say about that is that it is now Saturday afternoon and I am still feeling a touch seedy. I think a good night was had by all, but by the end of it I was too drunk to care anyway.
Mrs Blog and I crept into stately Park Towers (where we live) sometime after 2am and made as much noise as only drunk people who are trying to be quiet can. Mother Blog and Ali G (yes, they are an item) were trying to sleep in the spare room, having sensibly pulled stumps much earlier in the evening.
I bravely fronted for the first talk of my IVORY promotional tour at St Ives Library at 11am on Friday morning and, fortified by tea and scones, managed to mutter a few words without passing out.
I'm off on the road bright and early Monday morning, flying first to South Australia and Western Australia. I'll keep you posted on my travels, as I can't think of anything else worth writing.
If you buy a copy of IVORY I hope you enjoy it. And if you don't, remember that if you can't say something nice about someone then...
Comments
We didn't realize it was you making all that noise at 2am..thought it was a rubbish truck collecing bins and throwing them back onto the footpath, but do vaguely recall saying something to Mrs Blog about tigers now being old mud boys or something before snoozing off again.
Next morning, we put our 'Ivory' talking book into the cd stack in the car for the 4 hour return trip to Mudgee, then got so engrossed in the story particularly at the point when Alex Tremain was running along the deck of the 'Oslo Star' that I nearly ran off the road at the steep curly bits coming down into Lithgow so had to turn it off till we got home.
Then relaxed and listened to some more sitting around the fireplace with a cup of tea.
Very pleasant.. a great book and a ripper talking version also!
Enjoy the tour.
Orig Anon.
Give him our best. I'll bring him flowers and beer when I get back from the tour.
My only complaint, however, is that now your LOF will have another 12 (long) months to wait before Book 7 is available.......
Don't forget that Part of the Pride - My Life Among Africa's Big Cats, by Kevin Richardson and moi is coming out next month.
It's a bit frustrating for me, too, knowing that Book 7 is done (subject to some edits), but won't be out until this time next year.
If I could write short stories, I would. Now there's an idea...
Hmmmm...
Short stories (about Africa I hope) are a great idea - how soon can you write some ????????
Fellow LOF's may enjoy reading these too (whilst awaiting Book 7)
Really enjoyed Ivory.
xxxx (from the elephant)
Cheers.
The-One-From-Windhoek
First Tony Park have read.
Best and most enjoyable read I've had in years if not ever.
Will be buying all your previous ones tomorrow...am hooked!
I then said "groood grirl Youul loov it'
On a different topic - how can a drunk CREEP in anywhere? Drunks are not notoriously quiet people - crawl, roll, crash... in, but creep? - you obviously didn't drink enough!!