April 2013… catch-up<\/p>\n
A lot has happened since I last wrote…Libby realized she has too many commitments, and she\u2019s left us.<\/p>\n
We buckled under this blow. But still, there were 3 of us,\u00a0sharing the work.<\/p>\n
Then, two months ago, Louise told\u00a0 us she needed to talk.\u00a0 We sat glumly in a Darlinghurst caf\u00e9, Louise, Bem and I.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got too much other work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
It was one of those moments of such pain, I could scarcely lift my eyes, fixated by the sad scratches on the wooden table top.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoodness, Sue, you won\u2019t leave?\u201d asked Bem.<\/p>\n
I said, as I\u2019ve often thought, that accomplishing this website will be one of the comforts I\u2019ll want to count on my frail\u00a0 fingers on my death-bed- inspired by a French movie: I\u2019ll be surrounded by relatives bowed with grief and respectful family retainers, elegantly breathing my last on antique lace-edged linen, and in Rembrandt brown hues.<\/p>\n
A few sobs, a few hiccups off..<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s OK, \u201c I\u2019ll say comfortingly, my frail but still anarchic fingers delighted with a fraying hole they\u2019ve found in the lace.<\/p>\n
\u201cI leave behind the first-ever author-run website for established Australian authors and their readers.\u201d<\/p>\n
In front of my river house, Louise had planted scarlet geraniums amongst the wild ferns and grey-green gum leaves that contrarily decided just then to burst into flower. For a fortnight I couldn\u2019t look at their blaze, I had to turn my head away or my heart would sink.<\/p>\n
But Jan, Bem\u2019s husband, Doctor Jan, academic writer, designer, computer whizz (and extraordinary professional chef) and with a mind that\u2019s disciplined\u00a0 – has decided to join us.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll stay, he says,\u00a0 \u201cuntil wutheringink is up and running.\u201d<\/p>\n
So disaster\u00a0 has turned into relief, and now joy. The ASA is ready to house us in its rooms. Our website is almost ready to burst upon the world. We\u2019re accumulating authors who will be part of the founding family \u2013 Stephen Sewell, Ian David, Marian Campbell, Gordon Graham. And you, dear reader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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