📚 Yay! It’s #debutcrew2024 time again!

My debut picture book is getting closer but still not till October 🤸🐦🏊🏽‍♀️🤸

For now it’s huge congratulations to the next seven of us who are officially published authors 🤗

📚 Here are our MAY releases ...

📓 BECAUSE I’M NOT MYSELF, YOU SEE

@arianejbeeston @blackincbooks

When Ariane gives birth to her first child, she quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Fearful and shamed, she keeps her delusions secret, but Ariane gets worse. Much worse. A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recovery.

📘 THE DEED

@susannahbegbiewrites @hachetteaus

Wealthy farmer Tom Edwards is dying and cranky. Deeply disappointed in his adult children he puts a condition in his will: they must build his coffin together in four days or forfeit the family property. Four siblings will have to face each other, the past, and ultimately themselves.

📔 THE PHOTOGRAPH

@diane_clarke_author @wingsepress

Caryl Hunter believes she lost her brother during the war but her adoptive mother denies his existence. When she finds a black and white photograph of her family, in the company of a mystery boy, her determination to find him reignites. Years later her daughter takes up the search.

📙 THE STORY THIEF

@kyrageddes @affirmpress

Lillian’s family’s story made Henry Lawson famous. But was it his to tell? Fact and fiction meld in this stirring family saga set against shifting landscapes and pivotal moments in Australian history. A story of mothers and daughters, love, loss and the power of words.

📗 THE CHANGING ROOM

@belindacranstonauthor @transitloungepublishing

Inspired as a young girl by a British cartoon character who accesses different adventures each time he goes into a shop changing room , twenty something Rachel sets off for London to have a few adventures of her own. Unlike her childhood character, life irrevocably changes once she leaves the safety and familiarity of home. A haunting story about the messiness of life and about how travel can be both profound and life changing.

📕 ORDINARY HUMAN LOVE

@melgoodewriter @ultimopress

Mardi is the prodigal daughter returning to her father’s home in Lithgow, Australia, after 18 months overseas drifting. Before leaving she had left her lover, Ian without explanation. Now she wants him back. But can trust be earnt again, and what does it take to begin over?

📙 DEPTH OF FIELD

@kirstyiltners @uwapublishing

Told through alternating perspectives this winner of the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award is a gripping novel where the mechanisms of photography are allowed to falter just enough to expose how selective and unreliable our memories are.