The final countdown
in which I am vibrating with nerves
I turned 42 on the weekend, and took myself and my family down to the coast to spend it surrounded by eucalypts and koalas and currawongs and fairy wrens. And rain. It rained a lot. We attempted a beach walk every day, and every day we got drenched.
Work-wise, I’m in a very liminal period. A HUNGER OF THORNS releases in a week. The follow-up (not a sequel, but set in the same world), DEEP IS THE FEN1 is in copyedits, and I’m putting together a proposal for what might come next after that. It means I have nothing really solid to sink my teeth into, which is probably good because I’m very distracted by constant internal chatter of omgThornsisoutnextweekomgomg.
Anyway, this isn’t going to be the most scintillating newsletter ever, but it is going to set where I’m going to be over the next month or so, in case you would like to be there, too.
A HUNGER OF THORNS Melbourne launch
Readings Kids, Thurs 20 April, 6:30pm
I'll be in conversation with Amie Kaufman. There'll be wine and free art prints and other giveaways! Also I bought a new dress that makes me look like a shiny pirate. Book here: https://www.readings.com.au/.../book-launch-a-hunger-of...
US/Online launch
Joseph Beth Books, Thurs 20 April 7pm EDT (or 9am on Friday 20th if you're in Melb!)
Amie and I will do it all again for the US crowd and those who can't make it to the Melbourne launch! Would love to see some familiar faces. Book here: https://www.josephbeth.com/.../lili-wilkinson...
Release Campaign
Buy the book before 30 May, and claim free swag! I'm giving away digital goodies including an annotated first chapter and a short story, plus go into the draw to win an epic THORNS prize pack!
http://www.liliwilkinson.com.au/thorns-swag
Art Prints
The following Aussie booksellers have gorgeous art prints to give away with A HUNGER OF THORNS - get in while stocks last!
ACT: The Book Cow
NSW: Better Read than Dead, Galaxy Bookshop, Gleebooks Dulwich Hill, The Book Warehouse Coffs Harbour, The Book Warehouse Lismore
QLD: Mary Who? Bookshop, Quick Brown Fox, Riverbend Books, Where the Wild Things Are
SA: Dillons Bookshop
TAS: Petrarch’s Bookshop
VIC: Bookish Bendigo, Dymocks Melbourne, Farrells Bookshop, Readings Kids, Robinsons, The Little Bookroom, The Younger Sun
WA: Paperbark Merchants
Where to find me in May
1-2 - Melbourne Writers Festival (schools day only, because there are no writers for young people on the general program this year?)
2nd - Dymocks Camberwell First Tuesday Book Club, book here
3rd - special guest star at Bec Kavanagh and Shivaun Plozza’s Faber Academy online course book here
4th - just a punter at the launch of Amie Kaufman’s The Isles of the Gods (it’s really good, you should totes read it). I will have just gotten my first ever tattoo, so I might be woozy. Book here
10th - Creating Fantastic Worlds at Eltham Bookshop, with Kate Armstrong, Amie Kaufman and Spencer Labbe. Book here
22-27 Sydney Writers Festival (schools and general program) Book here
After which point I think I will need a holiday!
Here’s a very silly TikTok I made to get people to buy my book.
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Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning author of eighteen books for young people, including The Erasure Initiative and After the Lights Go Out. Lili has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate advocate for YA and the young people who read it, establishing the Inky Awards at the Centre for Youth Literature, State Library of Victoria. Her latest book is A Hunger of Thorns.
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Very excited for Hunger of Thorns!! Can't wait to read