It was about this time last year that I stumbled across the Australian Women Writer's Challenge for 2012. As an Australian female author, I was so excited to find a challenge promoting me (among many others of course!!). And I will admit my first thought was more about how it could help gain publicity for my book than how it could improve my own reading habits. But that idea soon changed.
I have long been passionate about reading books written by Australian authors, but as many of us know they can be hard to find. While many libraries have the books, very few have a specific section for Australian fiction - let alone Australian female fiction. So the idea of creating a website that combined the knowledge of as many readers as possible was just brilliant. Truthfully when I first set myself a target of reading 50 books for the challenge, I was dubious if I could do it. Not the number of books, but if I could find that many books by Australian women writers. What a pleasant surprise to find that there was easily that many - plus dozens more I was excited about devouring.
I have LOVED reading the books for this challenge and am proud to have reached my goal of 50 books with reviews of 38. Furthermore I hope that some of my reviews have encouraged other participants to read more books by Australian women authors.
A huge thank you to all the challenge organisers. It truly goes to show that one person can make a huge impact when they are passionate about changing something. Kudos to you! Thanks also to Shellyrae and her amazing Book Blog Book'd Out. It is through her that I have discovered many new authors and gotten myself onto the head of the library queue for upcoming releases.
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