Beer trucks and books. It doesn't sound like a normal union however you would be surprised at how some things get delivered up here on the border. Rachael our friendly publican at the Pioneer Hotel in Boomi rang me on friday. 'Hi Nicole. I just wanted to let you know that a parcel arrived for [...]
Outback Magazine: 'A must read'. Booktopia: 'Outback sagas...Alexander is the heir apparent'. Josh Levi Stone: 'This is the way to tell a story about the Australian bush'. Cathryn Harris: 'Nicole Alexander has become one of Australia's top female authors... (a) truly great piece of Australian fiction'.
Reading group questions for A Changing Land have just been posted on my site and there are some listed at the back of the work as well. Hope this adds to your book group discussions. We certainly had fun last year at the book clubs I went to discussing some of the questions for [...]
My apologies to those readers who have been waiting for the tour details for A Changing Land. They have been a little delayed, mainly due to areas that were affected by flooding. I actually put one third of the tour on hold and expected some events to be cancelled. Having experienced our own difficulties in this [...]
Not quite twelve months on from the release of The Bark Cutters and I'm down to counting sleeps before the publication of A Changing Land (March 1st 2011). This release seems to have come around very quickly and I'm still in the throes of getting ready for a 'BIG' tour to promote the work. Although [...]
Despite the woes of unharvested crops in soggy fields, the majority of our country remains very wet however at the moment, unflooded. We've had about 5,000 acres under water twice now yet putting our crop losses aside it really is a brillaint season. Yesterday was our first sunny day in about ten and its [...]
Have you ever thought something was 'set in stone' only to discover that the cement was far from dry? I've just had such an experience. The sequel to The Bark Cutters has just been renamed and will now be called, A Changing Land. The original title wasn't deemed marketable enough for the reading public and the [...]