Friday, May 1, 2009

A Year of Blogging

I realised when I did a video-conference on 'authors who blog' with Rachael King that I'd been blogging for a year! It seems longer - but no, I started in April 2008. So in honour of that I've inserted a section into the right-hand panel with all the subjects I've blogged on. It's a bit long to have it there all the time, but it's kind of wonderful to have it up for a day or two. Like a flag declaring my interests, passions, obsessions around The Blue and books and writing, and then there are those loose threads, stray thoughts, glimpses of other things flapping around too ...

I'm off to the bookshop now to sell a few books, and to - frankly - be a bit overwhelmed by the number of books out there, new ones every week. Sometimes, one more book from me seems like a stray snowball in an avalanche.

5 comments:

Rachael King said...

I know what you mean about all those new books. So many coming out just in NZ! And some really strong ones, as Beattie pointed out a while back, by young female authors. I'm keen to read Anna's book - did you see the interview and that stunning photo in the Listener? She looked like the beautiful star of some period costume drama.

The Paradoxical Cat said...

Happy Anniversary x

Mary McCallum said...

Thanks Rachael and PC - and yes, Rachael, I saw Anna looking gorgeous in The Listener, and her book arrived at the bookshop yesterday. I do hope people are buying collections of short fiction again given the success of some recently e.g. charlotte grimshaw....

Vanda Symon said...

Congrats on your anniversary, Mary. It spurred me to go and have a look, and lo and behold, my anniversary is on the 20th of May. Where does a year go?!

Mary McCallum said...

Of course, Vanda, I remember when you began... congratulations for your anniversary when it comes. I keep thinking I should have made more of mine... baked a little cake perhaps?