The upcoming Oz Tour for Kindling features a host of radio interviews and guest appearances.  So, if you don’t own a television, and the internet is just something that happened to other people, feel free to turn on, tune in and take five…

Tuesday July 27, 10.40am: ABC Australia Breakfast Club with Phil Kafcaloudes 

Friday July 30, 8.30am: Radio 3MDR Breakfast Lounge LIVE

Sunday August 1, 10.45am: 612 ABC Brisbane with Warren Boland

Wednesday August 11, 10.00am: 4ZZZ FM LIVE

Friday August 13, 9.15am: ABC Mid North Coast Mornings Book Club

Courtesy of QWC, I’m now presenting an extra session – ‘The Journey of the Book’ – at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival:

Date:	Thursday, August 5, 2010
Time:	2:30pm – 3:55pm
Where:	Byron Bay Community Centre, Byron Bay Writers Festival

Not surprisingly, my bit concerns the whole writing thingy – I’ll be raving on about the Kindling story idea and subsequent manuscript development for the assembled group of emerging authors.

The best part of this extra gig?  My agent, Tara Wynne (Curtis Brown), and my publisher, Vanessa Radnidge (Hachette), will also be present to pass on their considerable expertise!

And the extra best part of this extra gig?  My insanely talented author brother, Simon Groth, will be front and centre in the session immediately before mine!

Kate Eltham, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre, wrote a very kind review for Kindling as part of her ‘Great Selection of Australian Novels’ piece she put together for ABC Radio in North Queensland.

Here’s a teaser:

“…A beautiful story that shares the perspective of both Kieran and his father Nate…This book is incredibly moving with an unrelenting pace.”

See the full review here.

Fiona Stager and the terrific Avid Reader bookstore crew have offered up their digs for an evening of Kindling capers!

Date:	Thursday, August 12, 2010
Time:	6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location:	Avid Reader Bookshop, West End Qld Australia

The event is free and bookings are essential.  Folks from all walks will be there…including a famous author or two!

  

Break out the expendable bottle of Spumante – the SS Kindling is ready to launch upon the literary high seas…

Date:	Friday, August 6, 2010
Time:	4:00pm – 5:00pm
Where:	‘The Launchpad’, Byron Bay Writers Festival

Directions to the Festival can be accessed here…

As Sally Field once famously said: “You like me, you really like me!”  In this case, it applies to 2010 Independent Bookseller of the Year, ‘Readings’, and their opinion of ‘Kindling’.

Here’s a snippet:

“The story of Kindling is engrossing, and its characters beautifully realised…the novel (is) irresistible.”

Check out the full wrap at the Readings website.