Poppy Pride

Our Australian culture — particularly our rural culture— means we are not too good at singing our own praises.

The Tall Poppy Syndrome is alive and well within me. That’s why I’ve been a bit backward in coming forward and shouting to the world that I have just signed a four book deal with Random House in the United Kingdom and Germany! Yay!

My agent, Margaret Connolly, has been a legend in getting the deals done and I’m so grateful to her that stories from my rural culture will now be read by thousands overseas.

Over the past few months I’ve been getting to know, via email, my lovely new English publisher, Rosie de Courcy, who like me has a passion for books, dogs, horses and paddocks!

Rosie has kick started a new Random House Imprint called Preface and I’m proud to know all three of my books and my, as yet, unwritten fourth book will be under her guidance!

She’s a star with years of experience in helping to create the big names in books! To celebrate the deal I had one too many Bundy’s up the bush on Sunday beside the bonfire with my community of larrikins. It was a great way to celebrate.

Here’s another cover of The Stockmen from Germany, where my lovely German publisher, Maria, is steering my books through the translation phase towards publication.

With the Casterton Kelpie Muster on this weekend, I’ve been told there’s been interest in the event from Austria and Germany, thanks to The Stockmen!