By TANIA PHILLIPS
LOVE was in the air and in the words when Warwick-based teacher and author Candace Davis launched her first novel at Cafe Jacqui’s last week.
For the former Brisbane-based journalist said the popular local eatery was the perfect place to launch – Love A Collaborative Memoir – after all it was the place that she spent hours over her laptop revising the book – in a JK Rowlings moment.
And at the event, held on 2 November, readers, fans and friends were treated to the first chapter – read by the author herself.
The afternoon included a question-and-answer session which allowed those who had been curious about what the young woman in the corner of the coffee shop had been doing all those weeks – to find out for themselves.
And for Candace, it was a chance to discuss the pros and cons of self-publishing and whether or not her attitude had changed about love since the writing of the novel.
According to Candance Love A Collaborative Memoir took months of research with the 30-year-old hoping to knock ’write a novel’ off her bucket list.
However instead of writing it in her native Queensland – Candance headed to the City of Love itself, took a small apartment in Paris gave herself four weeks to finish the book – and completed the task in three.
She returned home to self-publish after a successful crowd-funding venture through Pozible earlier in the year.
The book integrates anecdotes from both young and old about love into a narrative connected with her own personal anecdotes.
Having recently completed her Masters of Education, Candace admitted that the novel had changed her ideas of love and hinted that this would possibly not be the only book in the series.
The novel is available in town at Cafe Jacqui’s and Emporium Lane, and at Bridget Bunchy (at the Summit) as well as online at www.vividpublishing.com.au/love.
An e-book version of the novel is also available at www.candacewrites.com.
