I've been a little busy lately!

Well Morgan's Law is well and truly out in the big wide world! It's so exciting to hear the feed back from readers and reviewers who have enjoyed the book so far! Thank you to everyone who has gone out and bought the book- I hope you liked it and enjoyed the town and characters as much as I enjoyed writing them :)
So I thought i'd show you a few things I've been up to lately.
The Coffs Harbour library hosted me on the 15th of May and it was lovely as always to catch up with the Coffs library crew.
I've done radio interviews with the ABC Rural Hour, 5MU, Radio Capricornia in QLD, Jon Vertigan Ace radio, Victoria, 6GS in Western Australia with the wonderful Pat Harding- the recorded interview is actually on my web page if you want to listen to it, ABC Mid north Coast breakfast show, I was also on the 'In conversation' show with Terry Cotter.
We then did interviews with  THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, MID COAST OBSERVER, BEAUTY & LACE  FEMAIL.COM.AU  THE WEEKLY TIMES / COUNTRY STYLE, CITY WEST NEWS, THE QUEENSLAND TIMES, FORBES ADVOCATE, WRITE NOTE REVIEWS-  http://www.writenotereviews.com/m-o.html, GRRL TO GRRL, THE AUSTRALIAN BOOKSHELF http://australianbookshelf.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/aussie-book-review-morgans-law-by-karly-lane/

(ONLINE) PEASE EXCHANGE , BOOK’D OUT – http://bookdout.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/aww-feature-karly-lane-and-rural-australia/ and http://bookdout.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/review-morgans-law-by-karly-lane/

READING UPSIDE DOWN  and COTTON AUSTRALIA  http://cottonaustralia.com.au/news/article/your-chance-to-win-a-copy-of-morgans-law also featured in THE LAND.


Phew! 


Just last week we traveled down to Bega and Bermagui to do library talks and it was so lovely to meet so many new readers and the wonderful staff at both places. Thank you to everyone for having us there.

Tony Allen, Mayor of Bega and one of the wonderful readers who came along to hear about 
Morgan's Law 

Then Yesterday I did a radio interview and visited Taree Library for an author chat with the wonderful staff and readers at Taree.

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Morgan's hits WA!

Small is beautiful for rural writer

ALECIA HANCOCK, The West AustralianUpdated May 22, 2012, 2:00 pm

Australian rural romance author Karly Lane. Picture: Nicole Perry.

Put on the spot, Karly Lane is unsure how many books she has written. As well as her women's rural fiction published in Australia, she has also had romantic suspense and family sagas published in the US under the nom de plume, Karlene Blakemore-Mowle.
Lane says she was always determined to write a novel and first started one when she was 19. "It was put away for a while and then I had kids and didn't start again until my first went to school," she says.
Rejected by "even Mills & Boon", Lane says she still has to pinch herself to believe her work has been published in the mainstream market.
"When I started writing I had no clue," she laughs. "Getting published is hard. A lot of publishers don't accept manuscripts without an agent and finding an agent can be just as hard as finding a publisher."
Now Lane's latest rural romance has been published by Allen & Unwin and she has a two-book publishing deal waiting in the wings.
A self-confessed small-town girl, Lane says she is happiest living in the kind of town where everyone knows who your grandparents were. So it comes as little surprise that her new book, Morgan's Law, takes us on one woman's journey to rural Australia where a final request sees her uncover her grandmother's mysterious past.
The mother of four says the idea for the novel came to her on the drive home from a family holiday.
"I was looking out the window and it occurred to me: wouldn't it be funny to find out you had a connection to a little town nobody had ever been to," she says.
By the time she returned home, Lane had written a complete story outline. Creating her central character, high-flying advertising executive Sarah Murphy, was a challenge for Lane, who worked as a part-time pathology collector.
"But I wanted someone who was going to be really out of place," she says. "I thought I'd make it the whole hog and have her working in London as well."
Having spent her life in small towns, Lane could share her first-hand experiences in Morgan's Law. She says the message that many rural communities were struggling was important to her.
"I think it was the most important message I wanted to put in the book," she says. "Even in the town I am in, the little shops close up and big businesses bully their way in. Some towns don't even have that and they just lose the population."
Lane says that, along with a serious message, a book should have a good romance. "I love reading anything with romance; I think it's a nice escape," she says.
Morgan's Law is published by Allen & Unwin ($29.99).

Here's the link!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/13749947/small-is-beautiful-for-rural-writer/

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