Thank you, John. Just browsing through the site gives a lot of information, often contradictory. I see reports from two different passengers on the same cruise with vastly different experiences, for example!
All told, lots of super information and resources.
I’m very interested to see what the final programme looks like. I think that this will be a great bargain. Often a writer's festival weekend in some soulless convention hotel can run to hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. This cruise will be a festival with an ocean view and the chance of being drowned, to quote Dr Johnson.
Famous authors are always great to hear and I’ve done my share of fangirling to stars like Alexander McCall Smith and Daniel Silva but sometimes the nuts and bolts of writing and publishing are what really matters. Pretty much every reader I’ve ever met is full of stories of their own, just looking for ways of telling them.
As for Melbourne, art galleries (both official and street art), fairy penguins, The World's Happiest Tram Driver, great food and drink. The laneway Bistros in the central city are extraordinary. I wrote a story about the world's best coffee recently. In my own travels, very few places compare for coffee with Melbourne.
Britni