In the State Library

Welcome to my new blog. I am setting it up in the State Library of Victoria, in that marvellous stately building that I hardly ever visit. I vow to return soon. Last night I watched a TV program on the British Museum, where cleaners stood on top of the roof of the domed reading room, washing thousands of glass panels with their squeegy mops. We have our own domed reading room at the SLV. It is a week for libraries and stately buildings. I am joining the Athaneum library in Collins Street, where I met up with three other writers this week. We are starting a novel writing group, the perfect forum to begin my novel next February. This year has been the year of the memoir, now with a publisher, awaiting her verdict. Next year the novel. Maybe soon one of my books will be on these shelves.