My, oh my! All the GOOD things...and a tragedy

Everyone, especially my New Zealand readers — I want to reach out and offer peace this weekend. Every sentence I try to write comes out like a cliche, but please know that the world loves your country.

(Moni, Susan, Frannie, Joan, Amiri…and all the other beautiful Kiwi readers I don’t know personally, we are all thinking of you.)

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I don’t know how to continue with what I had planned to tell you this week, but I’m going to try. It’s been a big week, with lots of this — baking for my launch party.

And a lot of this… rushing around!

LOVE LIE REPEAT is out now in Australia and in our beloved New Zealand, and I’ve been signing books before they fly out of shops. Want to see what a book signing looks like, especially if this is YOUR dream for your life? If yes, take a look here.

• Bookclubs are reading LOVE LIE REPEAT! Get your free Penguin Book Club notes.

• High schools are interested in teaching it! Free excellent Teachers’ Resource Guide is here.

• I’ve been baking yummy biscuits and decadent chocolate brownies for the launch party next weekend, and I’m planning a charcuterie board like this one, but massive…

I want you to know this: you can write your book, too. Let my story encourage you. It took two years to get LOVE LIE REPEAT from my laptop into the shops. People are reading it in one sitting — racing through — so we need LOTS of books. There is room for all of us. Me and you.

To party with us next Saturday, 23 March, 7:30pm Sydney time, you can join with Zoom on your laptop. It’s like watching a meeting, live. Just click on the image below OR on this Zoom link https://zoom.us/j/732408698 Check your time zone before you click! Zoom will load automatically, so follow the prompts. I’ll share the replay link next Sunday, too.

Can I say a million, billion THANK YOUs for being on this journey with me?

New Zealand, we’re carrying your heart in our hearts today.

Love, Catherine x

It's a big week for me...

This is Archibald Fountain in Sydney’s Hyde Park, and behind it, St Mary’s Cathedral. I wrote about these classic landmarks in my novel, Love Lie Repeat. I snapped the picture last night, on the way to visit a friend.

Yes, my book is my love song to Sydney…and it hits the shops tomorrow!

If you have any desire to write — if you do write — can you imagine how this feels? I’m proud and tired and happy. It feels a bit like leaving a five year old at the door of a kindergarten classroom.

(You hope that people will be nice.)

I’m a beginner and I started at 50. You guys, it’s been amazing and scary and wonderful all at once. Reviewers are loving my book and posting gorgeous photos like this one.

celebrate with us on 23 March!

I’m getting super excited about my launch party in the city on the 23 March. We’re getting close to capacity at our very cool venue in the city, so if you want to party with us (Penguin Books, my family, me!) please email me or Libby at Beachside Bookshop.

Overseas people — we’re going to Live Stream the launch so you can ALL party with the Aussies! And you can watch the replay, too. (Details coming soon — but it’s easy.)

Everyone is invited.

Everyone’s still sleeping in my Sunday-morning-house, so I’m off to make another cup of coffee and enjoy the birds and autumn sun.

I hope you all have a beautiful Sunday!

Thank you for being here with me, in real life, or in this corner of the internet. I appreciate you more than you know.

Love Catherine x

PS.

• How are you all doing with your posture exercises?? So good!

• You can buy Love Lie Repeat at your favourite indie bookshop, Dymocks, Harry Hartog, Kinokinuya, Berkelouw Books, Target or Big W. Overseas free worldwide delivery here! (Available across Australia on Monday.)

• Melbourne author Louisa Deasey wrote about authors and money. So interesting if you’ve always wondered how the book industry works.