It's funny, you can be keyed up and preparing for a big event like, oh I don't know, a book launch, for weeks and weeks, and then suddenly it's over in under two hours. Blink blink blink. I'm pretty sure it was good, because we came home, got the kids to bed and then promptly collapsed in a heap of exhaustion.

That might have something to do with the cold meds I'm on.

The Hobart Bookshop put on a lovely, cruisy book event. New authors, I recommend you fling yourself on their mercy! They...