https://jacquiebyron.com/press daily 0.75 2021-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622858678605-X0GLQFYOWDQGSQFMC4BE/UNKZ2324.jpeg Writing - Adventures in book making: Inspiration, procrastination & libation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1631861021833-0RAJSZU1TDPV7BYYJB55/Screen+Shot+2021-09-17+at+4.37.53+pm.png Writing - A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald. Warning: Sounds smug! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622882431751-9GHR0H2TF6LAK15XUUTP/IMG_1443.jpeg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622882345093-KVCUSNL8UMNWGM48JYEH/31A49337-83CD-44A9-9DE6-2AF35F78B6B2.jpeg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622882391567-PB3SA339H4UKEZ5WW2VY/IMG_1328.jpeg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/f6b20552-1069-4474-98ba-95372cbb3a91/261651983_10227682608993208_7332835476899447283_n.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/c856003a-092e-4a93-9bab-1d73ceada658/260070078_10227666248504206_246569286740517678_n.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/d8fdd5f4-f4a1-47e7-ab32-9a9ab8eca24b/260151585_10227666248704211_8293397747961392542_n.jpg Writing https://jacquiebyron.com/press/category/success+story monthly 0.5 https://jacquiebyron.com/press/category/press monthly 0.5 https://jacquiebyron.com/press/category/tips monthly 0.5 https://jacquiebyron.com/beginners-guide daily 0.75 2021-06-04 https://jacquiebyron.com/jacquiebyron daily 1.0 2021-09-17 https://jacquiebyron.com/about daily 0.75 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622862076343-Y8B11VXL1R70ZOOQ4BZO/IMG_1653+%281%29.jpeg JACQUIE BYRON - Fancy seeing you here! Well hello and thank you again for dropping in to see me. I’m so very excited to be sharing news about Happy Hour alongside other new writing and publishing bits and bobs. If you’re at all interested in the behind-the-scenes of the book world, you might find this fun. I love having a stickybeak into the way other people’s creative projects come to life so I am hoping others (YOU?) feel the same. Do stay a while and look around. Maybe one day you’ll even buy one of my books. Stranger things have happened after all. - JAQ B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622879189596-9YMG14MCIWW2R394J1NJ/IMG_1937.jpeg JACQUIE BYRON - Me, me, me … I was born in Melbourne and, in this post-pandemic, travel-restricted world, I will most likely die there. Not the worse thing to be fair. My home is full of treasured items, including an Irish dancing costume and a Scottish whisky collection. As a journalism graduate from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, my work has taken me from the world of pop divas and jewellery designers to light commercial vehicles and Ugandan IDP camps. In 2015 I was awarded a Glenfern Fellowship and in 2016 my work, Trouble Sleeping, received a Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Happy Hour is my debut novel. https://jacquiebyron.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622952894795-A2ORODCFJ1SMAJAM28D0/IMG_1730.jpeg Contact Portrait of my real Whisky by the gorgeous Angie Porter, born and bred Melbourne gal now working from her studio Front Room Workshop in Bridport, Dorset, UK. Find Angie here. https://jacquiebyron.com/join daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4c424adc39513f8a9c866b/1584124906262-JSNVE2JD3LSANKN7P59U/Stocksy_comp_1937562.jpg Join - Memberships & Class Packs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4c424adc39513f8a9c866b/1584124474338-YKQ1K0AMA7JXAE9K2TYE/Stocksy_comp_1937558.jpg Join https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4c424adc39513f8a9c866b/1584124517717-QMFNYXZB2O4VG9R8BQAA/Stocksy_comp_1937568.jpg Join https://jacquiebyron.com/programs daily 0.75 2021-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1631858812773-ZASVHUN4HRCFM8ZAEL3X/240599975_10227233142476826_2771439858871393910_n.jpg Happy Hour - Happy Hour in the October 2021 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Dreams DO come true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1634508132283-7KXJH9T2CDPXZ1S8LQBY/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+8.54.05+am.png Happy Hour The Age / Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1629772210164-NW9LLYE351PXSQE7V6YS/HAPPY+HOUR+TILE.png Happy Hour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1622951605726-HJ6NFL00XPKL064QE1GG/GGBU0131.jpeg Happy Hour 1. Frank, while gone, could still be considered a significant a character in Happy Hour. How do you think the presence of Frank in the photographs contributes to the narrative? What does Franny’s conversations with him reveal to us? 2. Franny loves to cook, which of the meals that she cooks would you most like to try? Have you tried the recipe in the back of the book? 3. Franny is part of an online book club as she likes the anonymity. Do you prefer online or in person reading groups and why? 4. Franny struggles with finding forgiveness for Chris throughout the novel. How do you think you would feel in Franny’s position? 5. Franny is a complex character who is struggling with immense grief, and her ability to connect with others because of it. She often comes across as cold or cruel in her attempts to protect herself from further hurt. How did you feel about how Franny treated those who used to be closest to her? 6. Motherhood is another central theme in the book. Both Sallyanne and Franny have struggled with their identity as a mother, Sallyanne feeling that she fails to be a good single parent and Franny believing that she was never meant to be a mother after the death of Tilly. Franny also has people ask her multiple times why she chose not to have children. What do you think all of this says about how women are valued and perceived in society in relation to motherhood? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1634337667549-QF08O6MDRFFBSZ2LZWI9/launch+books.jpg Happy Hour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1634337686513-1AJ1PFKZ1VXAU57PK6G4/brightshed.jpg Happy Hour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1634337722879-HIG4X1M6255BMADWSE64/Launch+botts.jpg Happy Hour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60baa5c38791194056dce022/1634337805381-TOANPRKTOVAF854EZNHQ/Screen+Shot+2021-10-16+at+9.21.05+am.png Happy Hour