I mentioned yesterday that I’d have some good news to announce today. I’ve known about it for months, but couldn’t say anything until the official announcement – which is today. <\/p>\n
Books Alive 2009<\/a> – an annual Australian Government promotion to encourage reading and book-buying – has launched today, and I am over-the-moon to announce (finally!) that my new book, Dark Country, is one of the ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ profiled in the Books Alive Guide<\/a>. The Guide is distributed free in bookshops and in some major newspapers this month, and there’s a specially commissioned book of short stories that is given away for each purchase of one of the books in the Guide. The Books Alive promotion also involves a series of TV adverts encouraging reading, so, all in all, it’s wonderful to be included. <\/p>\n So, to celebrate both the official release of Dark Country on September 1, and it’s inclusion in ‘Books Alive 2009’, I think a giveaway is definitely in order! But, I’ll do it in a separate post – so see my next post<\/a> for details to go into the draw to win one of two signed copies of Dark Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I mentioned yesterday that I’d have some good news to announce today. I’ve known about it for months, but couldn’t say anything until the official announcement – which is today. Books Alive 2009 – an annual Australian Government promotion to … Continue reading