This all began for several reasons. First and foremost, I have been harping on about starting a blog for an age. Over the weekend, whilst sharing a glass of sauvignon with friends, the topic of blogging came up and I pronounced with excess enthusiasm “Oh, I’m going to start blogging!”. The friends looked at me with a tired, here-we-go-again look, the same way they do when I say I am going to sit my full-driver’s license test or drink less coffee or say more positive things about Auckland’s public transport system. That is, they looked at me as if to say, “It’ll never happen”.
But that isn’t the only reason I am starting blogging. (If it were, I’d have to go and sit my drivers license in a caffeine-deprived state and make nice conversation about buses, and that isn’t going to happen). Recently, I was chosen as one of 16 young publishers to be part of the 2009 Frankfurt Fellowship. Thus far I have done a couple of interviews on the upcoming fellowship… and I realised I have a lot to say about the book world.
So I should, it has been my life for the past five years.
Finally, my partner (Scott) came up with the ingenious blog title of “Reading Reneessance”. If that isn’t reason to start blogging, I don’t know what is.
Seriously though, I’ll be utilising this space to share my perspective on life from inside the publishing world, upload a few book reviews and link to anything exciting happening in the book world.
And everynow and then I’ll probably have a rant about Auckland public transport.
