After 3 great days at the writers festival and a few dollars contributed to the local bookshops its back to the day job. Thank you for all the emails of support everyone I do appreciate your comments – and yes I did pick up on the spelling and grammatical error – again my impatience (to get the site up before the festival) made its impact.

Great writers at the festival – if you get a chance to listen Emmanuel Jals story about growing up with the Sudan civil war and onwards to becoming a rap star – definitely take it. The line of people snaked around the auditorium for quite some time after the completion of his talk with all waiting patiently to get a copy of Emmanuel’s book signed. During the day I had been talking to another Author and she was very happy to have sold and signed 6 books, using her as a yardstick, Emmanuel would be pleased with the number of people he reached.

In life we can be lucky to come across people that encourage and motivate you, I now add Emmanuel to that list of people, not in so much as the way people like Tony Park have inspired me as a writer but more in a way that his story encourages me that wherever we are in life we should never give up. This is equally applicable in struggling for your very life as Emmanuel was and being faced with the challenges that come into all of our lives. Thank you to all those that take the time to share, encourage and motivate you truly have an important role in the universe, more of the same.

I picked up some great books from the festival which I will be diligently reviewing over the next couple of weeks:

China Cuckoo – Mark Kitto, The Lost Sky – Alice Nelson, Deep Water – Peter Corris, War Child – Emmanuel Jal

Don’t forget to try for the cash prizes and submit reviews of your own.

My sights are now on this week’s Literati on the Gold Coast, some outstanding authors are going to be present – Tony Park, Peter Watt, Sydney Bauer, Katherine Howell, Kim Wilkins – to name a few – great stuff.

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