Friday, May 4, 2012

Food@Home - the author on tour


 Food@Home being launched - I grew the pumpkin and baked the cake, 
and the good folk at the university bookshop did all the rest.

Food@Home was successfully launched on May 1st at the Canterbury University bookshop (read more about it on Beattie's BookBlog).

Now it is time to take it out into the wider world, so trips to Auckland (May 11-13), Wellington (June 2) and Oamaru (June 22) have been confirmed so far, and I'm open to offers to go to other places if enough people want me to be there to talk about the message in the book, and can pay my expenses to get there. (That's what I'll be doing at the Transition Town Oamaru meeting on June 22.) I will also be speaking in Christchurch on June 8 as part of the Christchurch City Library's Matariki programme.

I'd like it if my trips away from home could do some good for your community as well as my book sales, so if you think your school, environmental group or other good cause could use me as a speaker at a fundraising event, then I am available for a speaking fee of $100, plus travel expenses, AND I will donate $3 from every copy of Food@Home sold at the event towards your cause. I can speak without props, OR give a powerpoint presentation, OR lead a garden ramble (you provide the garden), OR take a gardening or cooking workshop (fee negotiable). (I can even sing my song composed especially for the book launch – The Very Best Food – but you will have to join in on the chorus.)

Please check the Food@Home - book and author on tour page on this blog for details on where I will be when over the next two months, and come and say hello if you can. To organise a speaking engagement with me, please write to ecogardenernz @ gmail.com or call 03 329 4588.






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