Debbie Robson's Blog - Posts Tagged "bookcrossers"
New Book Signing
I have just been asked by Angus & Robertson, Newcastle to do another book signing on Saturday, 31st July. I am excited already!
I now have only eight bookcrossers to contact regarding release forms so I'm finally making progress. I also had a delightful afternoon last Sunday interviewing Vera Deacon. She is 84 and a former resident of the lost islands of Newcastle. She has lived on two of them - Dempsey and Mosquito. They no longer exist - buried under BHPs new site. 1920s Newcastle really is another world.
I now have only eight bookcrossers to contact regarding release forms so I'm finally making progress. I also had a delightful afternoon last Sunday interviewing Vera Deacon. She is 84 and a former resident of the lost islands of Newcastle. She has lived on two of them - Dempsey and Mosquito. They no longer exist - buried under BHPs new site. 1920s Newcastle really is another world.
Mailing List
Well the mailing list is up. This is so the publisher can offer a discount to early birds and my BookCrossers!
http://www.marycelestepress.com/books...
Won't be long now!
Debbie
http://www.marycelestepress.com/books...
Won't be long now!
Debbie
Where all my BookCrossers are within the book
Just for fun here is the list of my 40 real life BookCrossers who appear in Crossing Paths (along with my fictional BookCrossers) and the page numbers their journal entries are on.
TexasWren, page 18, first mention/deenbat, page 61, first mention/Lady-B, page 73/omly, page 86, first mention/minerswifebb, page 98/octoberskye, page 111, first mention/bookfrog, page 134, first mention/bookczuk, page 138/folia, page 159, first mention/thebiblioholic, page 175, first mention/lmn60, page 175, first mention/ottawabill, page 198, first mention/nobodysperfect, page 223/YvetteDownunder, page 226/dawni, page 234/geishabird, page 237/time-traveler, page 291, first mention/Azyade, page 315/bestfriends, page 322/Netstation, page 342/apapsa, page 352/ffc-fan, page 378/Humour108, page 384/asterw, page 395/Skyring, page 400/SwanOfKennet, page 410/flambard, page 416/mississippimom, page 426, first mention/lizzyblack, page 426, first mention/jessibud, page 437/liberliber, page 441/angelbird72, page 475, first mention/gypsyrose02, page 477/lesTomates, page 485/peachy93722, page 492/over-the-moon, page 500/Navig8r, page 529/amberjane, page 539/MissMarkey, page 557/talkland, page 562.
Where I have put "first mention" that means the BookCrosser is journalling a frequently travelled book or they perhaps send another pm. The three most travelled books in the novel are If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Loving Spirit and Tell Me the Truth About Love.
Virtual and real world meet!
TexasWren, page 18, first mention/deenbat, page 61, first mention/Lady-B, page 73/omly, page 86, first mention/minerswifebb, page 98/octoberskye, page 111, first mention/bookfrog, page 134, first mention/bookczuk, page 138/folia, page 159, first mention/thebiblioholic, page 175, first mention/lmn60, page 175, first mention/ottawabill, page 198, first mention/nobodysperfect, page 223/YvetteDownunder, page 226/dawni, page 234/geishabird, page 237/time-traveler, page 291, first mention/Azyade, page 315/bestfriends, page 322/Netstation, page 342/apapsa, page 352/ffc-fan, page 378/Humour108, page 384/asterw, page 395/Skyring, page 400/SwanOfKennet, page 410/flambard, page 416/mississippimom, page 426, first mention/lizzyblack, page 426, first mention/jessibud, page 437/liberliber, page 441/angelbird72, page 475, first mention/gypsyrose02, page 477/lesTomates, page 485/peachy93722, page 492/over-the-moon, page 500/Navig8r, page 529/amberjane, page 539/MissMarkey, page 557/talkland, page 562.
Where I have put "first mention" that means the BookCrosser is journalling a frequently travelled book or they perhaps send another pm. The three most travelled books in the novel are If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Loving Spirit and Tell Me the Truth About Love.
Virtual and real world meet!
Mixing up names and books
The Sydney unconvention last weekend was my fourth and I had a wonderful time. I attended the Friday BBQ at Ultimo with marvellous food and a "to die for" pavlova. Also attending was a box of very famous macaroons.
On Saturday morning we all met at the Queens Victoria Building for our release walk. The old queen herself was decked out rather flamboyantly as part of "Art and About" and so were quite a few other statues including pigs that were really ready to fly.
Along the way I left 19 of the books that are in Crossing Paths and mixed up the names of several BookCrossers. Suddenly putting a real name to a BookCrosser you might have been messaging off and on for years can get tricky when (at least for me) it is impossbile to remember two names at a time!
Below is a link to a few photos to get the feel of the release walk.
The unconvention finished for me with a great dinner and amazing company at the Australian Heritage Hotel in Cumberland Street in the middle of The Rocks.
I can't wait for the next one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69586232...
On Saturday morning we all met at the Queens Victoria Building for our release walk. The old queen herself was decked out rather flamboyantly as part of "Art and About" and so were quite a few other statues including pigs that were really ready to fly.
Along the way I left 19 of the books that are in Crossing Paths and mixed up the names of several BookCrossers. Suddenly putting a real name to a BookCrosser you might have been messaging off and on for years can get tricky when (at least for me) it is impossbile to remember two names at a time!
Below is a link to a few photos to get the feel of the release walk.
The unconvention finished for me with a great dinner and amazing company at the Australian Heritage Hotel in Cumberland Street in the middle of The Rocks.
I can't wait for the next one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69586232...
Doing a TV Interview
This post was put up on wordpress on 14th September.
It was fantastic. I’m not quite sure how Channel Ten Sydney came to approach the Adelaide BC group but bookcrosser Newk put up the information at BCAUS, the yahoo BookCrossing group, that the station was looking for bookcrossers. Yours truly, never backward in coming forward, put up her hand and also contacted the station.
Eve Neylon the segment producer was wonderful and the online intro the station put together to explain BookCrossing to the general public was one of the best examples I’ve seen. BookCrossing really is a parallel universe. It is a tricky thing to explain in a few minutes but the bottom line is that www.bookcrossing.com is about sharing books. If you love books and want to share books with others, read reviews of your favourite books, meetup with people to discuss books and even receive books in the mail from faraway places then BookCrossing is definitely for you.
For me discovering the site has literally changed my life. I have not only been to 4 conventions: Adelaide, SA in 2006, London in 2008, Greece in 2008 and the Sydney Unconvention in 2010 but it has also inspired me to write my second published novel Crossing Paths: the BookCrossing Novel.
One of the questions my interviewer Paul Henry was going to ask me was how did I get into BookCrossing. Well, a week before Christmas in 2003 I saw an ad in an Australian Publications mag about the site and immediately I was intrigued. I couldn't wait to get home and sus it all out!
After an hour or two going over the site (it is a very comprehensive with a lot to take in) I immediately realised "This is so me." I love books and I love synchronicity and BookCrossing is about both. After a little while I also realised that BookCrossing was also a book - a book that I could write. I remember working out that amazingly people can be tracked through BookCrossing. And you could also anticipate where people might be travelling to next, by the books on their "virtual" bookshelf.
I also remember, within a day of discovering BookCrossing, studying my "real" bookshelf to try and work out what books my character would take with her and how many. I initially decided on 10 but then lowered it to eight to allow for books she might pick up on the way. Also important was where she was going to release the books and so began my journey of writing a book inspired by an online bookclub, the doorstopper that I managed to hold up in my TV interview, as you can see for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAqoC...
Doing the interview was a wonderful insight into how segments are produced. Eve was very thorough. First interviewing me by phone, keeping in touch by email, phoning me again to confirm the appointment, asking more questions and a day or so before emailing me with background information that the interviewer would be reading to prepare themselves (Paul Henry as it turned out) for the segment and questions they would be asking to give me a chance to put together my best answers.
We only had three minutes and because the station decided on producing a small online intro to BookCrossing, that freed Paul up to ask different questions. He asked one or two on the list but the rest were dictated by his curiousity and the way the conversation went. Although he did interrupt a bit I'm glad he did because that's how we managed to cover quite a lot in in such a short timespan.
I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to do the interview. It was such an enjoyable experience. I was lucky to have my friend Gina drive down with me from Newcastle and she was allowed to sit offscreen and watch the segment. Everyone was so friendly - the makeup girls, Lana, Eve, Paul and Kath. Thank you Channel 10! It was fun!
It was fantastic. I’m not quite sure how Channel Ten Sydney came to approach the Adelaide BC group but bookcrosser Newk put up the information at BCAUS, the yahoo BookCrossing group, that the station was looking for bookcrossers. Yours truly, never backward in coming forward, put up her hand and also contacted the station.
Eve Neylon the segment producer was wonderful and the online intro the station put together to explain BookCrossing to the general public was one of the best examples I’ve seen. BookCrossing really is a parallel universe. It is a tricky thing to explain in a few minutes but the bottom line is that www.bookcrossing.com is about sharing books. If you love books and want to share books with others, read reviews of your favourite books, meetup with people to discuss books and even receive books in the mail from faraway places then BookCrossing is definitely for you.
For me discovering the site has literally changed my life. I have not only been to 4 conventions: Adelaide, SA in 2006, London in 2008, Greece in 2008 and the Sydney Unconvention in 2010 but it has also inspired me to write my second published novel Crossing Paths: the BookCrossing Novel.
One of the questions my interviewer Paul Henry was going to ask me was how did I get into BookCrossing. Well, a week before Christmas in 2003 I saw an ad in an Australian Publications mag about the site and immediately I was intrigued. I couldn't wait to get home and sus it all out!
After an hour or two going over the site (it is a very comprehensive with a lot to take in) I immediately realised "This is so me." I love books and I love synchronicity and BookCrossing is about both. After a little while I also realised that BookCrossing was also a book - a book that I could write. I remember working out that amazingly people can be tracked through BookCrossing. And you could also anticipate where people might be travelling to next, by the books on their "virtual" bookshelf.
I also remember, within a day of discovering BookCrossing, studying my "real" bookshelf to try and work out what books my character would take with her and how many. I initially decided on 10 but then lowered it to eight to allow for books she might pick up on the way. Also important was where she was going to release the books and so began my journey of writing a book inspired by an online bookclub, the doorstopper that I managed to hold up in my TV interview, as you can see for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAqoC...
Doing the interview was a wonderful insight into how segments are produced. Eve was very thorough. First interviewing me by phone, keeping in touch by email, phoning me again to confirm the appointment, asking more questions and a day or so before emailing me with background information that the interviewer would be reading to prepare themselves (Paul Henry as it turned out) for the segment and questions they would be asking to give me a chance to put together my best answers.
We only had three minutes and because the station decided on producing a small online intro to BookCrossing, that freed Paul up to ask different questions. He asked one or two on the list but the rest were dictated by his curiousity and the way the conversation went. Although he did interrupt a bit I'm glad he did because that's how we managed to cover quite a lot in in such a short timespan.
I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to do the interview. It was such an enjoyable experience. I was lucky to have my friend Gina drive down with me from Newcastle and she was allowed to sit offscreen and watch the segment. Everyone was so friendly - the makeup girls, Lana, Eve, Paul and Kath. Thank you Channel 10! It was fun!
