{"id":12462,"date":"2018-01-10T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2018-01-09T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T04:07:09","slug":"me-talking-to-the-book-podcast-booklovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/me-talking-to-the-book-podcast-booklovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Me talking to The Book Podcast &#038; Booklovers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello 2018, and what a wonderful way to start the year: an interview on The Book Podcast and giving an author talk!<\/p>\n<h3>The Book Podcast<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookpodcast.com\/2018\/01\/02\/ep-43-zena-shapter-towards-white\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12463 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Book-Podcast-247x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Book-Podcast-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Book-Podcast-123x150.png 123w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Book-Podcast.png 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>The Book Podcast aims to celebrate Australian women\u2019s writing and champion cultural change. In each\u00a0episode, interviewer-extraordinaire Rosemary Puddy talks to an Australian woman\u00a0writer about their books, helping to expand their reach and readers&#8217; reading. In her words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;We have a wealth of talented women writers in Australia and I will be talking to\u00a0fiction and non-fiction writers from\u00a0all genres. Some writers may be well know to you, others may not. I hope you\u00a0discover new books\u00a0or are inspired to re-visit old favourites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/thebookpodcast.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribing<\/a> to her blog and listening to multiple episodes, as Rosemary is a great interviewer \u2013 she asked me some really tricky questions!<\/p>\n<p>To listen to her interviewing me, please just <a href=\"https:\/\/thebookpodcast.com\/2018\/01\/02\/ep-43-zena-shapter-towards-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much Rosemary for including me!<\/p>\n<h3>Author Talk<\/h3>\n<p>Thank you also to the Narrabeen Booklovers&#8217; Club for including me in your schedule of author talks for 2018. It was an absolute delight to introduce you to my solo debut <a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/portfolio\/towards-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Towards White<\/a> and share my writing journey with you. Such great questions from the audience afterwards too! I&#8217;m thrilled so many of you were interested in (and bought!) my book, now on its second print run!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12467\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zena-Shapter-Booklovers-Club-e1515466618599-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zena-Shapter-Booklovers-Club-e1515466618599-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zena-Shapter-Booklovers-Club-e1515466618599-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zena-Shapter-Booklovers-Club-e1515466618599-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zena-Shapter-Booklovers-Club-e1515466618599-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Zena-Shapter-Booklovers-Club-e1515466618599.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Anyone Else?<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in having someone speak to your group, club, school, college, centre, colleagues, podcast, readers or listeners \u2013 please don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/contact\/\">get in touch<\/a>! I love talking about all things story, why we write and tell stories, how my own writing fits into that, how I became a writer, and everything I know about books and the art of creating them. All you have to do is <a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get in touch<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, don&#8217;t forget to listen to that interview <a href=\"https:\/\/thebookpodcast.com\/2018\/01\/02\/ep-43-zena-shapter-towards-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello 2018, and what a wonderful way to start the year: an interview on The Book Podcast and giving an author talk! The Book Podcast The Book Podcast aims to celebrate Australian women\u2019s writing and champion cultural change. 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