So Shooting Butterflies is launched, and its out there... I have had confirmation of it being seen across Australia - and even in New Zealand! So exciting!!! People send me pictures of seeing it all over the place and the little flutter in the stomach never goes away seeing my book on the shelf next to other books in shops, and I hope I never lose that feeling. Some of those pictures...








































This was my very beautiful cake from my Brisbane launch... thanks Woolworths Bribie Island for the cake, and then I bought the beautiful edible giraffe cake topers from Cake Sisters.



















And my cupcakes at the Melbourne launch, leopard print, then blue and pink spots... they were stunning! Again, simple Woolworths cup cakes - then I added to them (okay, thank you again to hubby who actually put them on... admitting that I’m a klutz and didn’t need to get icing from the piping tube on my clothes!) So, I couldn’t fuss much when you are flying into a city to do a launch, but it was great anyhow!!!



























Other book signings have been happened after the launches, and I have been kept on my toes! But there has been an amazing feeling that has been present the whole time during this period: that is the love that readers have shown for my African stories, and that readers have come back and bought my second book. And for that I am grateful.

I have been seriously lucky, just as this book launched, an amazing amount of exposure happened for my first book - My Brother-But-One. It was nominated for a Queensland Literary Award - The Courier Mail 2014 People’s Choice Queensland Book of The Year Award. And although I didn’t win, it was an amazing journey, and I think that the ripple effect from that shortlist is being felt in my sales - my social secretary ( aka my husband) captured this pictures of it back up in the top of the chart again...Wahooo!!!!












While Shooting Butterflies was a New and Hot Fiction feature too...

















Its always great to see your book cover up on the screen - and that never gets old either. I know its been on iTunes, but I was too slow and didn’t grab a screen shot...


Right - now I need to go back to my current WIP - or you won’t have another new book to read this time next year! Thank you to the amazing Ricardo Careaga from Singita - Sabi Sands for this picture.... I’m a really visual person, as I write this I have a play list of songs from Africa playing... and I will go and view my Pinterest page once more - then carry on with my WIP...


























Bye 4 now
Tina