Then a week before you’re due to throw the first book party, boxes and boxes of the real thing arrive and you rip the cardboard open to birth a beauty. It’s beautiful because you worked with excellent people to bring it to life. Mazen Kerbaj, who designed the cover art, Maddison Kitching, the imprint, and Zenobia Ahmed who typeset the interior. Friends and family embrace your silly little book, which turns out to be not so little and not so silly. Louise Klerks throws an intimate opening at Missing Persons and your dear friend, pianist and author Alex Landragin, says all sorts of ridiculously flattering things. You take the book to Sydney 'cause heck why not, and do it all again at BTWNLNS. Dymocks Melbourne, Metropolis, Brunswick Bound and other amazing Indies across the country agree to stock copies and you think, does this make it real? Legitimate? Will this make me rich? Or allow me, at the very least, to keep writing, maybe even write another book one day? That being the main aim after all…

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