{"id":601,"date":"2009-05-02T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2009-05-02T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:45:04","slug":"literati-on-the-gold-coast-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/literati-on-the-gold-coast-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Literati on the Gold Coast Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted that I&#8217;ll be taking part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoastcity.com.au\/libraries\/t_library.aspx?pid=8247\">Literati<\/a> events on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast at the end of this month, organised by the Gold Coast Libraries. <\/p>\n<p>The Literary Feast is on Friday, 29 May, at 7pm at the Gold Coast Arts Centre; around 30 authors will be there, moving between tables to talk about books, writing and reading with the other guests. Tickets for the dinner are $75. <\/p>\n<p>The following day, Saturday 30 May, there are a series of author talks at the various Gold Coast libraries. I&#8217;ll be on a panel at Broadbeach Library, at 10am, with authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonijordan.com\/\">Toni Jordan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uqp.uq.edu.au\/author_details.php?id=1133\">Karen Foxlee<\/a>.  Our topic is writing a follow-up to a best-selling debut novel. (Technically mine isn&#8217;t a best-selling novel &#8211; not yet, anyway! But it&#8217;s doing quite nicely.)<\/p>\n<p>The full program of events &#8211; and there are some great authors participating &#8211; is available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoastcity.com.au\/image_content\/library\/literatiprogramweb.pdf\">PDF file<\/a>. The author talks are free, but bookings are essential. <\/p>\n<p>And, in a nice gesture, I received a parcel yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textpublishing.com.au\/\">Text Publishing<\/a>, who publish Toni Jordan, had sent me a copy of Toni&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textpublishing.com.au\/books-and-authors\/book\/addition\/\">Addition<\/a> via my publisher. It looks like a great read &#8211; as soon as my copy-edits are finished, I&#8217;ll delve into it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted that I&#8217;ll be taking part in the Literati events on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast at the end of this month, organised by the Gold Coast Libraries. The Literary Feast is on Friday, 29 May, at 7pm at the Gold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/literati-on-the-gold-coast-event\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}