It’s all starting to happen.

I finalised the launch details today with the Hobart Bookshop, and came away with some pretty posters to stick up to advertise the event. The details of the event are here and I’m hoping those Hobart residents out there who read this blog will be coming along to say hi and join the party. Chris and Janet at the Hobart Bookshop always put on a good launch, and it should all be done just in time to go have dinner somewhere lovely in Salamanca, even if it is a Thursday night.

I was going to say it’s a school night, but apparently there are school holidays about to descend upon us (yes Melander, I know you warned me, but I thought it was late June, not the bit of June that is still barely clinging to May!) and so those of you with small children like me do not have to feel guilty about bringing them along. We may have to feel guilty about what wreckage our children perpetrate upon the kiddy corner of the bookshop, but let us not count our regrets before they happen…

Is it odd that I’m more concerned what my children wear to this event than what I wear? When I think about what to wear my brain goes all tunnel visiony and panic-ridden. I have a baby, I live in t-shirts and track pants these days, I’ve forgotten how to dress up! Raeli went as a mermaid to my last book launch, and I’m now kicking myself I didn’t buy little girl cloche hats from Etsy for this one. It’s probably a bit too close to the even to get them sent out now. Still, one never knows when a cloche hat will come in handy. I’ll just put flowers in Raeli’s hair and drape beads on her, and Jem can come dressed as a cat. Or a tiger. Or a wolf cub. All these things are appropriate to the story…

I’m delighted that Craig Wellington will be launching the book. I’ve known Craig since I was a wee child and now he’s terribly important – a theatre producer, performer, comedian, public speaker and writer among other things, and has become a bit of a local legend in Hobart circles. Having him on board brings a lovely sense of occasion to the event, and apparently this is the first time anyone’s ever asked him to launch a book, which is very surprising to me. Glad I could correct it now!

I’m also working away on a few little publicity projects which should come to light over the next week or two. Watch this space!

3rd of June, 5:30pm, Hobart Bookshop, Salamanca Square. Come along!

Tags: booklaunching, events, jem, mama writer, mothering, power and majesty, raeli