Oh my goodness - Every
Breath is coming out in Canada, the US and the Philippines on October 14,
only a few short days away. Book
birthday!! Folks, this is such a big
thing, and I can’t tell you how nervous and excited I am. Yes, there are many feels.
I’ve been particularly thrilled by the way the excitement is
spreading. The blog tour dates are all
lined up, and Cuddlebuggery is the last passenger aboard this train – the full
blog tour schedule (Oct 20-24) is up here at the Tundra blogsite. New reviews have been popping up all over the
place, like this one at There Were Books Involved (so lovely!) and here at BookVerdict and here at Brittany's Book Rambles and I mentioned the Kirkus review, right?
I’ll be at the announcement for the Inky awards on October
21 – Will Kostakis (The First Third), Amie Kaufman (These Broken Stars), Allyse
Near (Fairytales for Wilde Girls), and Claire Zorn (The Sky So Heavy) will all be
there too, and there was some talk online about a WWE/Hunger Games-style Inky
Author Smackdown… But I’m sure we can be
civilised about this! (I mean, unless you’d like
to see us authors all battling it out…)
The event is open to the public, so if you’d like to come along, jet on
over to the State Library website and book your (free) ticket.
I’ll also be at Clunes Library on October 22, and at the
Little Bookroom with Kirsty Murray and some other guests on November 11, and no doubt you will catch me online,
blagging about Every Breath in its
new life overseas.
I’m gearing up for some big thank yous soon – my cup of
gratitude and happiness officially runneth over. But I wanted to say one big thank you first
of all, to my partner, Geoff.
Geoff and I jumped the broom twenty years ago this year, and
apart from our kids, he is the most important person in my life. We have raised four sons together, and share two
decades of memories. People often ask
me, ‘How do you write with such a large family?’ and sometimes the answer is ‘I
honestly don’t know’, and sometimes the answer is my own discipline and sheer
bloody-mindedness, but mostly the answer is ‘My partner’. We parent and order the household together,
juggling work and taxiing kids and other commitments, and splitting the household
chores, but he will do the lion’s share when I’m on deadline, or in some other
sort of writerly frenzy.
He is the one who revs me up, calms me down, prods me to
keep going when I need it, encourages me at every turn. We put up with each other’s foibles – my head
in another world of characters, his footy obsession. We talk about everything – everything. He is my lifeline, and my inspiration. And y’know, he’s hot (still. After twenty years. Uh huh.)
He would be mortified that I’m saying all these things about him in such
a public space, but I would like to acknowledge all the whole-hearted care and
commitment he’s given to me, especially these last few years, since the
book-writing thing has taken off, because without him I wouldn’t have been able
to do any of it.
So Geoff, I know I’ve included you in acknowledgement pages
and dedications, and I try to say it every day, in small domestic ways, but I
want to thank you – for the last twenty years, for love and devotion, for our
sons, for everything. I love you,
darling. Happy anniversary.
Xx Ellie
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