{"id":194,"date":"2008-08-31T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T23:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-09-02T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:37:32","slug":"its-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/its-real\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s real"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I thought I’d actually posted this on Sunday – but must have just pressed ‘save’ rather than ‘publish’. Oops.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn’t get into town on Thursday after all, as a thunderstorm started as I was getting ready to go, and I didn’t want to leave the dogs outside during it. I didn’t have anything urgent to do, so I went in on Friday instead – and also had to go in yesterday, as well.<\/p>\n

My book is in the shops \ud83d\ude42 It’s quite a special buzz, to see it on the shelves in the bookshops and in Big W and K-Mart. Big W even has a promotion for it on their in-store radio, which happened to air just as I was walking towards the book section. Dymocks, who are hosting the local launch event next Thursday evening, have it prominently displayed right beside the front entrance. I know they’ve sold at least two copies – I minded my friend Danielle’s wool shop for a few minutes on Friday while she went up to buy it, and yesterday my friend Martin asked me to wait while he bought it so that I could sign it for him, as he can’t make it on Thursday.<\/p>\n

I’m definitely going to have to practise writing by hand again – I’m so used to using the computer these days, that my handwriting takes effort to keep readable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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