Teaser Tuesdays: The Seventh Wave by Paul Garrety

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

That was the trouble with the damn universe; everything was connected. Change one thing and three others would tilt over and crash into nine more.

Page 13 of The Seventh Wave by Paul Garrety

Aurealis Awards wrapup (finally!), Supanova, Flickr and Facebook

I am sorry I have been so slack with my blogging. I've been under the weather, and had stuff going on in my personal and professional life that have prevented me from writing more than a few garbled sentences at a time. I never finish or refine these drafts and thus they never see light of day.

Aurealis Awards

This wrap up is VERY late in coming, and I do apologise! Rather than give a blow by blow of who won what awards, I’ll list the winners (which I am sure you have seen around the Aussie

book blogging world by now) and then a quick summary of my highlights of the night.

2010 AUREALIS AWARD WINNERS:
CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through words)

• The Keepers, Lian Tanner, Allen & Unwin

CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through pictures)

• The Boy and the Toy, Sonya Hartnett (writer) & Lucia Masciullo (illustrator), Penguin Viking

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• A Thousand Flowers, Margo Lanagan, Zombies and Unicorns, Allen & Unwin

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healey, Allen & Unwin

ILLUSTRATED BOOK/ GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Changing Ways Book 1, Justin Randall, Gestalt Publishing

COLLECTION

• The Girl With No Hands, Angela Slatter, Ticonderoga Publications

ANTHOLOGY

• Wings of Fire, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon, Night Shade Books

HORROR SHORT STORY

• The Fear, Richard Harland, Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears, Brimstone Press

HORROR NOVEL

• Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott, Pan Macmillan

FANTASY SHORT STORY (joint winners)

• The February Dragon, LL Hannett & Angela Slatter, Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications
• Yowie, Thoraiya Dyer, Sprawl, Twelfth Planet Press

FANTASY NOVEL

• Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts, HarperVoyager (HarperCollins)

SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• The Heart of a Mouse, K.J. Bishop, Subterranean Online (Winter 2010)

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Transformation Space, Marianne de Pierres, Orbit (Hachette)

KRIS HEMBURY ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD

• Jodi Cleghorn (Go Jodi!)

PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS’ AWARD

• Helen Merrick

My highlights of the night:

• Tracey O’Hara came to greet me at the door before we had even registered! O.O I was shocked, because despite talking to her on Twitter from time to time, I have only met her two or three times. She not only recognised me but knew me. It is a shock to me when someone I admire remembers me :D I was a bit star struck LOL
• Hanging out with the lovely Nyssa from ASFFA and delightful Mark from Galaxy, with the gorgeous Elle and suave Nick from my writing group (Spiders represent!), and damn, ALLLLLLLLLL my twitter friends, including authors, editors and other book industry people. Unexpectedly I knew more than the four people I walked into the room to greet.
• Because I went to the Aurealis Awards with Nyssa, she introduced me around to some of her “people”, be they friends or industry contacts. I admit to being starstruck at times.
• I was talking to Tracey O’Hara and she introduced me to Nicole Murphy, another author I talk to on twitter quite a bit. You know how you don’t recognise someone, but the second someone points it out you feel like facepalming yourself? Well, it was like that.
• At the after party I sat with Nyssa, Mark, Tracey O’Hara, Nicole Murphy and a few others and drank an overpriced bourbon. We had to catch a midnight train, so I went to find people to say adios to (actually, hello, as I said I would meet them there), and talking to @Rowena_SW realised that I should have spent more time in the other corner, because a lot of other people I enjoy tweeting with were present, including @BothersomeWords and @nickystrickland. After a quick chat and photo, Nyssa and I had to run, but it was lovely to put faces to aliases!

There were other highlights, like seeing authors I have admired for years, and all the pretty clothes (I could have worn my corset! Dammit!), and while it was over a week ago now, I have fond, if fuzzy, memories. I’ll definitely be returning to the next awards. I was not expecting to get much out of the Aurealis Awards aside from some silent fangirl squees, but somehow I found myself fitting in. Maybe it is because the literati type parties I have attended in the past were general fiction, not speculative fiction, but I was expecting to be bored while awed. Instead I found myself fascinated with every conversation I took part in, to the point I wish I had more time for each person I met. I also feel kind of bad because I didn’t drag Elle and Nick around with me so they could meet some complete strangers. Or at least offer too. I think I was high on the atmosphere. And I really wasn’t expecting to know anyone except my friends. I guess I am still kind of in shock. I am not the sort of person people remember. Well, I haven’t been in the past. But it seems the more I tweet, and the more I participate in the community, the more people are becoming to know me as part of that community.

Facebook

That’s right, I have a facebook page now! You can “fan” Book Bites at www.facebook.com/bookbites - I will be microblogging when I am attending events (e.g. the Aurealis Awards last weekend) and sharing links and such. It is also another way to keep up to date with blog posts if you do not check your Feed Reader constantly (I am guilty of that myself!).

Flickr

I've uploaded some more photos to my Flickr page. I found some old photos on my hard drive of signings at Galaxy that were not previously uploaded and I have added some photos from the Aurealis Awards, Sir Terry Pratchett at the Sydney Opera House and various prizes and autographs.

Here are some photos from the Aurealis Awards:



Master of Ceremonies, Garth Nix, hidding in the shadows while Susan Wardle and Nathan Burrage co-convene.


I was able to spend time chatting with some of my favourite ladies, Tracey O'Hara and Nicole Murphy.


Catching up with twitter friends at the Aurealis Awards after party.


One from the guest bag, one prize, a friend's prize, and the last because someone already had a copy.

Supanova

Supanova is on in a few weeks. I am going, my friends are going, even some of my book club ladies are going (let’s face it, they are friends too, we just happened to have met through book club LOL) and Supanova will be AWESOME! I am excited to meet JAMES MARSTERS!!! Seriously, his name belongs in caps. I may swoon. Yes, swoon. I am also meeting Sean Maher (another hottie playing one of my favourite characters, nice!), Moreena Baccarin, and Gareth David-Lloyd. And, the bit that is actually relevant to my readers? Tracey O’Hara, Erica Hayes and Nicole Murphy will all be at Supanova! They aren’t listed as guests, but they will have an Urban Fantasy stall in the Artist’s Alley :D We plan to go glomp! So, if you read urban fantasy and will be at Supanova, you should go say hi! They are all wonderful women who write terrific books! They are totally glomp-worthy! :D So do it. I am using my Jedi mind powers on you and telling you you should glomp them at Supanova. Of course, that would be more effective if I was actually a Jedi. The thing is, I’d probably be a Sith or smuggler like Han and Chewy LOL Anyway, Supanova, FTW, mid June, best geek fest in Australia!

ARRC to Perth in 2013?

If you are a member of ARRA, you should check your email. There is a suggestion that ARRC 2013 could be held in Perth in conjunction with the RWA conference. It would obviously be cheaper for ARRA in terms of productions cost, but I suspect they will lose attendees if they do go ahead with it. ARRA has sent around a survey to gauge interest in this idea in an email this morning.

I personally wouldn’t attend ARRC 2013 if it was in Perth – unless I won the lottery, met a sugar daddy or got a substantial raise. None of these things are likely to happen in the next year and a half, so I can say with very little doubt I would not attend a Perth conference. The reasons for this are numerous, but the main one is if I had the money to go to Western Australia, I would spend it in a 4WD playing tourist, not paying for a conference and accommodation to spend the weekend in a luxury hotel. This, for me is about priorities. If I had the money to fly to Perth (approx $800 return), pay a couple of hundred in accommodation, another $200 or so for the conference, and then another $200 or so for clothes and accessories (there is a awards dinner and ladies need a chance to frock up!) I would need well over a thousand dollars! O.O I just don’t have that sort of money.

I have talked it over with my paranormal romance book club and we had tentatively decided to attend the next one and make group bookings for everything. You need ten people for that, but once you have that number, things get cheaper. One of our members is a travel agent and she knows these things. I very much doubt these ladies would go to their first ARRA conference if they needed to spend more than $1000 to spend a weekend in a hotel.

For the average member, I assume they would need to get some big names in the genre to attend for people to find it worth attending. By average member I mean someone without a lot of disposable cash. Yes, we have two years to think about saving, but that is A LOT of money for a two day event! O.O

If someone is going to spend that sort of money, they do so to see the sights and experience new environs. This is not me complaining that I never want to go to Perth. This is me saying when I go to Western Australia, I want to do a bloody good job of it. I would rather ARRC 2013 be somewhere accessible for most of the members, somewhere I could afford to go, and somewhere I could convince my friends to go. Let’s face it. ARRC 2011 was at Bondi Beach. How many attendees actually made it down to Bondi Beach? Maria and I went down for ten minutes or so while we were waiting for our bus home on the last day. No one would have made it to Bronte – and it is, by far, the better beach of the two! I am sorry ARRA, but if it is held in Perth, there is no way I will be able to attend, or would choose to attend. Which is sad, because I really enjoyed ARRC 2011!

Teaser Tuesday: Afterlight by Elle Jasper

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

“If I can’t beat them, or outrun them, teach me how to kill them.”
A look of disbelief crossed Eli’s features. “Would you be able to ram a dagger through your brother’s heart if he came after you?” he asked.

Page 169 of Afterlight by Elle Jasper

I am unexpectedly attending the 2010 Aurealis Awards tomorrow

I am unexpectedly attending the 2010 Aurealis Awards tomorrow night! It is very unexpected as I had decided not to go, but a friend of a friend needed to get sell a spare ticket. I may be live tweeting, I may take photos, I may glomp on certain authors if they turn up (Isobelle Carmody, Glenda Larke, Juliette Marillier and Sonya Harnett are finalists – all favourites at one point in time!), and I may hobnob with people of the Australian speculative fiction industry. Or I may hide in a corner, nursing my drink and muttering to myself… No, that is unlikely to happen, because I have a few friends attending. Worse comes to worse I will cling to Nyssa’s skirt or Mark’s coat-tails LOL (hey, don’t judge me, I am shy, okay?!)

So. Yes. It is all very sudden. One minute I am planning on spending my weekend in bed reading my way through my TBR pile and the next I get a tweet and reply without thinking things through. So, being unprepared, I have nothing to wear (some people will recognise my dress), I don’t have much money (I have money for my ticket and the train fare) and I had a last minute haircut last night and quickly touched up the purple in my hair. I also had to find a pair of shoes – luckily I found a pair that fit me and fit my budget!

This was all money meant for Supanova – I was going to buy my ticket and layby my corset. I guess I'll not buy books next week to make the difference up out of next week's pay check. I have completely broken my Doctor Who run in 2011! I had never missed an episode of New Who, but last week I was at a birthday party and missed it, and tomorrow night Nyssa and I will be iViewing it when we get back from the awards night. And you know what? I have to wait a week. I have broken my viewing streak, so I guess a few hours here and there won’t kill me *sigh* But… I wubbs the Doctor…

Anyway, I am getting distracted again.

I am going to the awards night tomorrow. Are you?

Also, it would totally be bad etiquette to lug around books and accost authors for autographs, wouldn’t it! *giggles* I’ll leave them at home… I swear!

How do you define urban fantasy and paranormal romance?

How do you define urban fantasy and paranormal romance? I have never found a definition that really fits, as some of the books I read like to mess with the boundaries. I happily read both sub-genres, but I know some people who choose to read one or the other. It is a topic I have hear people mention (the fuzziness of the definitions) however, I have never really heard a definitive stance on their definitions. I love all the books I have read in both genres (okay, I had an issue with Jim Butcher’s Dresden series – don’t hate me) and I do not really mind if a book is technically UF or PNR, but I am curious about the definitions.

My personal definition is urban fantasy deals with one main protagonist who may or may not have one or more love/lust interests, and generally has important secondary characters. They go off and kick arse and/or have adventures/save the world/partake in a quest/etc. Urban fantasy series revolve around the same protagonist and their actions, and generally are written from their point of view throughout the narrative. Paranormal romance is set in an urban fantasy world/supernatural world/fantasy realm/science fiction setting and primarily focuses on the hero and heroine and their dual story of romantic discovery, which may or may not involve arsekicking, adventures, saving the world, partaking in quests, etc. Paranormal romance series are a series of separate novels about couples, but may be set in an overarching narrative with interweaving stories making up the whole. Each book is writing from the point of view of a single couple (or ménage, etc.) and while the following books may come back to them to highlight their happily ever after, generally their personal narrative is finished with the end of their own novel.

Do you read urban fantasy? Do you read paranormal romance? How would you define them? Do you bother defining these sub-genres, or are they one and the same, or irrelevant to you? Do my personal definitions make sense to you or do you take umbrage with them? I would love to know what you think!!

Teaser Tuesday: Thyla by Kate Gordon

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

I didn’t want to shower.
I didn’t want anyone to see my scars.
I didn’t want them to think I was strange.

Page 74 of Thyla by Kate Gordon

I will be reviewing Thyla for Book Thingo in the near future.

Favourite Australian Authors: General Fiction

This was a post I started writing at the beginning of April for Aussie Author Month. I was at 4000 words and still going by the 30th of April so, sadly, I missed the boat. I realised, when Aussie Author Month was created, that while I love Australian authors, they don't get as much coverage here or elsewhere online as they deserve. Unfortunately Australian fiction is a bit of a niche market - we don't get a lot of export occurring. It is really disappointing, but that is just the way things are. So, I will be doing a listing of some of my favourite Australian authors in the next little while. You can follow this using my "ausbooks" tag - Aussie Author Month may be over, but I will be using this tag for all Aussie content in the future. And next year, when Aussie Author Month comes around again, when people search that tag they will find a lot of content. I was appalled when I was looking for content for the Australian Speculative Fiction Blog Carnival just how little content is being covered around the web. I could complain, or I could champion the cause and do something about it myself! So, as part of this four-part series, I will be posting a handful of my favourite authors in the next little while, with reasons I love them and books of theirs which mean something to me. I am splitting them into four parts: General Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Speculative Fiction and Romance.

Randolph Stow

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow is still one of my all time favourite books. I love it. He just got it! I feel homesick for hot dust, the sound of crows cawing & cool shade when I read it. The bush baby in me sighs. The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea is a semi-autobiographical account of growing up around Geraldton during WWII. You see the land and the events with the eyes of a little boy, and as he gets older he understands more of the world and people around him. I love this book. I really love it. I had to read it for university and although it was a forced reading I fell into the language and the landscape. Having grown up in the bush, also with a harsh dry landscape, and at the time living in the city for my studies, I found myself pining for the smell of hot dust and cool shade, the sound of crows and the feeling on wonder a little child has exploring his/her environment. I still find The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea to be a sentimental read. It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of a reader who doesn’t have a background in rural Australia. The Visitants (set in Papua New Guinea and sounding vaguely like science fiction?) is on my TBR pile, and I plan to buy more of his books as I find them.

Ruth Park

Playing Beatie Bow was a book that was forced on us in year nine. After the first page it was no longer something to complain about. The cover (old, ragged, with dismal, gloomy artwork) and the blurb had put me off, but the actual content was fascinating. A girl in “modern” Sydney (I think it was the 80s?) accidently slips back in time and ends up being adopted by a family living down by The Rocks in Victorian Era Sydney. It is an absolutely fascinating book, and Ruth Park obviously did her research. I am an archaeologist and have a passion for history, and now, I walk around Circular Quay wondering how it must have been to live there a hundred years ago. I have friends who have participated in archaeology digs at The Rocks that covered the time frame that Playing Beatie Bow was set, and I am envious (I was at a dig in Parramatta which covered the same eras and when back further in time, so I guess I shouldn’t complain). I still find it amazing how Ruth Park can write about this period of history in a way that is relevant to modern day teenagers. I think it must be because her characters are so well written. I also read and loved The Harp of the South, although I read that when I was 10 or 11 and found parts of it terribly depressing. It also raised more questions with me than it answered, but I suspect that was because of my age. It would be interesting to go back and read it again as an adult. Ruth Park passed away in December last year. Her website is http://www.ruth-park.com.au/

Thea Astley

I read Thea Astley when I was a teenager. I loved Drylands because she captured living in a small country town like the one I grew up in. The slow sleepy speed of country shops, the feel of the local pub, the interactions of a small community stuck with each other and the disrepair and despair of a small country town when people start packing up and heading for the city. There was one passage about the collection of dusty unread books in the newsagency because no one is interested in buying them, and only the main protagonist chooses to read them. She stares out her window, watching the town pass by and decides to take up writing.

Thea Astley is another author that I always keep an eye out for. She won four Miles Franklin Awards before her death, including one for Drylands.

Book Bites online - facebook, twitter, paper.li, goodreads and flickr

I've made a few changes to my blogging behaviour in the last year. Aside from being more social and attending literature-related events, I have had two guest bloggers on Book Bites (hopefully with more to follow!) and I have also started accounts associated with my blog around the web, and closed others. I've also started writing in my spare time and attending a writing group a few times a month. I am also now attending three book club meetings a month, although I suspect I will have to scale this back because of my health. I have also had an article published in the Australian Romance Readers Association newsletter, and will be guest reviewing for two other blogs in the near future.

I can’t say that I am being mercenary about getting my “brand” out there on the internet, but I am thinking more seriously about networking. I smirk at myself when I talk about this, because I know I am not “hot stuff” in the book blogging world. I see some of my friend’s blogs and look at my own and I know it is nothing really special in the grand scheme of things. It isn’t an amazing review site, it isn’t on the cutting edge of news, or syndicating memes around the internet. But you know what? I love my blog. I wish I had more reviews up, more in depth content, but despite that, I just love Book Bites. I love that I have a place to blather on about one of the two leading passions in my life, I love that I have a platform to network with other like-minded people around the world!

Book Bites is about two years old now. I can’t tell you the exact date (I deleted the original blog and imported posts) but I started dedicating a blog to books in early 2009. Before that they had pride of place on my personal blog (they were taking over!). So, with about two years of dedicated blogging under my belt, a dead forum (I should go back and mine World Of Words for reviews I may have written LOL) and just over 14,000 tweets (of which maybe 75% pertain to books or nerd culture), I have started a Facebook fan page. You are not obligated to “like” it. I started it because I wanted to nab the vanity url of Book Bites before someone else did. “Brand building”, don’t you know! So “like” it or don’t, it is your choice. I won’t be mentioning it again, although, if you look carefully at the clutter to the right, you will see there is now a Facebook “like” button for Book Bites (I really do need to overhaul my side bar – it is looking a little messy). As well as another way to syndicate Book Bites’ RSS feeds, I will be adding relevant links that I find interesting or think are important. I will be sharing links to photos when I upload them (did you know I uploaded photos of Sir Terry Pratchett I took to Flickr?), or links to friend’s photos if they are relevant to me or events I attended. I put all these things on twitter, but I know I am a prolific tweeter, and the important things to my blog followers may be missed in the stampede. I may sync my Goodreads, but I am not sure if I can do that yet. You can add me on Goodreads if you wish to follow what books I am reading. I rarely talk about all my books on Book Bites, so you only see a select sample.

Do you have a Facebook fan page for your blog? How do you use it? What do you use it for? I would love to hear of any ways you use it that I haven’t already mentioned!


If you want to connect with my Book Bites presence around the web you can find me at the following sites:

• Facebook
• Flickr
• Goodreads
• Twitter
• The Book Bites Daily
• I also have a tumblr that is meant to be about interior design but seems to be overrun with bookshelf p0rn. You are welcome to follow it too: The Lady Lair
• A list of tweeps in the Australian book industry (readers, writers, bloggers, publishers, editors, etc.)
• A list of tweeps in the international book industry (readers, writers, bloggers, publishers, editors, etc.)
  

Just in case you missed it (which you couldn't if you follow me on twitter!), I have a guide to buying ebooks in Australia. It is aimed at Aussies new to the world of ereaders (such as myself at the time) but it also includes a large listing of sites you can legally obtain ebooks as an Australian - either freebies, loans or purchases. If you are an Australian ebook reader, can you please check the list to see if I have missed any that you use? I am trying to keep it updated and aim for it to be a comprehensive list. You can find the guide {here}.

Teaser Tuesday: Thyla by Kate Gordon

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

As I lay in my new bed on the first night in my new school, the scars came alive.

Page 10 of Thyla by Kate Gordon

I will be reviewing Thyla for Book Thingo in the near future.

Teaser Tuesday: Thyla by Kate Gordon

I am taking part in Aussie Author Month during April. Daily links tweeted using the #ausbooks hash will be collated {here}. Aussie Author Month is also supporting donations to the Indigenous Literacy Project. You can donate through the Aussie Author Month ILP page on on GoFundraise.

My posts for Aussie Author Month can be found using the Aussie Author Month or #ausbooks tags. If you don't have a blog, I am looking for guest bloggers for Book Bites during April. If you are interested, please email me on book bites oz at gmail dot com.

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser: 

I just let Connolly talk as I watched the buildings whoosh by, feeling as if I was in a dreamland, partway between memory and the present.

Page 10 of Thyla by Kate Gordon
^It is a bit late - life got in the way. I was going to post it when I got home from work on Tuesday, but my internet died. Yesterday I was home sick with no internet, and I am sneaking this in at morning tea today. Don't hate me. I feel Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme, so some days it may be late.
I will be reviewing Thyla for Book Thingo in the near future.

Aussie Author Month: I am giving myself an extension

I am going to extend Aussie Author Month on Book Bites. I had issues on the weekend that kept me from the internet and threw my entire day out of wack. So rather than back dating some posts and being sneaky (I was tempted) I'm extending my month for another week. I have it on good authority that you can still donate to The Indigenous Literacy Project on the Aussie Author Month's Go Fundraise page, and I know of another blogger who couldn't fit everything in by the 30th of April, so I do not feel too bad. Okay, I do, because I had all these plans, but at the same time... Well, I tried. I have a 2,000 word post half written (probably another 2,000 words to go, we'll see...) about some of my favourite Australian authors, and a review on a new Australian YA author which I need to type up. Vanyel informs me she has another review for me to post as well. So hopefully, in the next week I will have another few posts for Aussie Author Month for you. In the meantime, you should check out the #ausbooks collection on Paper.li (just click on Archive to navigate the days) to see what everyone else has been up too!

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Book Bites is taking part in Aussie Author Month during April. Daily links tweeted using the #ausbooks hash will be collated {here}. Aussie Author Month is also supporting donations to the Indigenous Literacy Project. You can donate through the Aussie Author Month ILP page on on GoFundraise.

My posts for Aussie Author Month can be found using the Aussie Author Month or #ausbooks tags.