Elwood Writers’ Jennifer Bryce celebrated the official launch of her novel “Lily Campbell’s Secret” at Readings Books in Carlton earlier this week. Here’s her report on the event, from her website:
For me, the most exciting part of publishing my book was to see it there, bound, in a cover — a real book, rather than a word file or a heap of pages spewing all over the floor from my printer.
But the next most exciting experience was last night, at Readings Bookshop, Carlton, where Toni Jordan launched it. Toni has a huge deadline to meet in a couple of weeks’ time, yet she had spent time thoroughly reading Lily Campbell’s Secret and looking back to her notes, to the time, in 2015, when I took her workshop, Refining Your Novel. I had naively thought that my carefully drafted novel was ready for refining! No way. It went through several iterations, but after the workshop with Toni it gained direction and purpose.
Toni Jordan launching Lily Campbell’s Secret
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Fantastic Jenny! Congratulations. I can’t wait to read it. 💕Karen
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It was wonderful to be there Jenny and see ‘Lily’ flying off the shelves. What a journey it has been!
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Congratulations! What an amazing achievement 😊
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Thanks — it is certainly satisfying to see all of that work come together between two covers — and it was wonderful to have so many friends and supporters at the launch.
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