Sofluid celebrates 100* followers with a giveaway!

Where does the time fly? There I was on Wednesday 30th July 2008, snuggled up in my bed in Adelaide, Australia, and about to begin blogging as a writer. The adventure well and truly began! And here I am now, almost three years later and with *101 followers!

I couldn't imagine being without this lovely blog and the blogosphere it inhabits. You're all such a fabulous bunch; a support network, learning pool, discussion group, debate team... Friends :)

I wanted to do something fun to celebrate reaching 100 followers, so I began to think about how I could reflect myself and my followers in a giveaway. I came to the conclusion that, given a common love of writing and reading, a books giveaway would be ideal.

So, I've chosen a couple of my favourite books which connect in some way with my personal projects. I had great fun choosing them, and will no doubt do more giveaways in the future!

So, what could you get your mitts on?

First up is Maggie O'Farrell's "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox".

Maggie O'Farrell has work published by Ether Books, as do I (if you've got an iPhone, go get my story "When The Music Stops" in the free Ether app!)

I read this novel back in 2007 and was instantly mesmerised by it.

"Esme's great-niece, Iris, inhales the scent of fabric and tissue paper in her secondhand shop and divides her time between a married lover and her difficult step-brother, Alex. When Iris receives a phone call informing her that her great-aunt - whose existence she never suspected - is being discharged from the psychiatric institution where she's been held for over 60 years, she sets about trying to uncover her story. The two narratives converge, and the appalling circumstances that led to Esme's imprisonment and the theft of six decades of her life are revealed."

-- Description from a Guardian interview with Maggie O'Farrell.

As I'm sure you'll all be aware by now, I'm currently helping to edit a charity anthology, New Sun Rising: Stories For Japan. 


Our aim is to celebrate Japanese people and their culture whilst raising money to help them in their time of need.


One of my favourite books, based in Japan, is "My Name Is Sei Shonagon" by Jan Blensdorf.

"From the publishers of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Tale of Murasaki comes an exquisite, heartbreaking novel about a young woman’s fight to find love, beauty and individuality amidst the alienation of modern Tokyo."

If you'd like one of these books, all you have to do is comment on this post and let me know which one you'd like to win (or both if you'd like either!) In a week's time, I'll pick names out of a hat. I'll happily send to anywhere in the world, and you needn't be a follower to enter (though it would be super lovely if you were to become a follower before entering!)

Good luck!