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Speaking Engagements/Appearances/Book Signings
2011
- 25 August - Address for Seniors Week, Dalby Library - "Growing Up on the Oakey Creek".
- 5 September - Address at the Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach in company with my immediate family of siblings and their partners - "A Family Thread", detailing the contribution my grandmother Kathleen Mylne OBE made to the establishment of the QCWA. This was combined with a family presentation (led by my cousin, Dr Graham Mylne) of a sketch by artist Christina Frost Clayton for hanging in the Hall of Fame in honour of Country Women.
- 10 September - Address Brymaroo 100 Year Reunion, reading my blog "The Farty Seat" which tells the story of Arthur Mason's experience as a young boy going by sulky to the Nungil State School in the late-1940s.
- 5 October - Address Anglican Church morning tea, Dalby
2010
- 8 March - Attend International Women's Day function at Government House, Brisbane
- 5 May - Address Town & Country Club, Toowoomba
- 15 May - Address launch Christina Clayton's Art Show, Blue Mountains
- 17 May - Address Kings Cross Rotary Club
- 18 May - Address Sydney Rotary Club
- 3 June - Address Probus Club, Warwick
- 18 June - Presentation to Women's Publishing Network seminar, Brisbane - 'Self-Publishing Forum'
- 22 June - Launch Modern Women's Anthology at Customs House, Sydney by Therese Rein
- 6 August - Address AGM, Qld CWA
- 7 August - Launch 9 Ante Portas exhibition and incorporating launch of Volume 1 of audio of Slippin' on the Lino
- 10 August - Address Brisbane Women's Club
- 16 August - Address Warwick Trefoil Club
- 11-12 September - New England Girls' School, Armidale, Old Girls Weekend - launch Year of 1970 Year Book (collated and edited Diana McCann and Jane Grieve
- 27 October - Andre Rieu Concert, Brisbane Entertainment Centre, featuring brother-in-law Keith Potger and The Seekers
- 19-28 November - Bush Christmas Exhibition, The Downs Club, Cnr Margaret & Mylne Streets, Toowoomba (opp Grand Central Shopping Centre) - my book, audio, Women's Anthology and cards will all be for sale at this event
2009
- 11 October - Garden Day, Goondiwindi - presentation
- 17 October - Zonta Races, Roma - presentation
- 26 October - AUTHOR EVENT - 6pm Mary Ryan Toowoomba - Mayor Peter Taylor & Jane Grieve to speak
- 30 October - Scots PGC Art Show launch - Scots PGC College, Warwick
- 4 November - Author Event at Books of Buderim - 6pm
- 5 November - Author Speaks to Mary Ryan Book Clubs, Mary Ryan Hervey Bay (Pialba)
- 19 November - Address Moreton Club
- 20-28 November - Bush Christmas, Toowoomba
- 10 December - Speak at Christmas Party, Gifts Galore, Roma
- 13 December - Garden Day, Dalby
- 16 December - Address Mary Ryan Book Club, Red Hill (Cellar Door, Clovelly Estate)
Time Line for Slippin' on the Lino
July 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino is printed by Griffin Press, Adelaide
August 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino is delivered to Dennis Jones & Associates, Distributors
August 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino delivered to Pillow Talk warehouse
5-15 August 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino and other FANTASTIC art available at 9 Ante Portas Art Show, 54 Latrobe Tce, Paddington, Brisbane - hey, what a great story is that - click here for more
18 August 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino available for sale through all Pillow Talk stores
15 September 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino officially launched by David Fagan, Editor The Courier-Mail, Mary Ryan's Milton
September 2009 - Slippin' on the Lino available all over the place for your enjoyment and your every-bedside-should-have-one Christmas present!
Interviews
Interview with David Iliffe, ABC Southern Queensland, Breakfast with David Iliffe - Friday 19th November 2010
David Iliffe interviewed Jane about recent changes in her life and her involvement with A Modern Women's Anthology.
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Interview with Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn - Thursday 3rd December 2009
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Spencer Howson Interview - Monday 2nd November 2009
Jane interviewed by Spencer Howson on 612 ABC
Jane interviewed by David Iliffe, ABC Southern Queensland 747
Press Releases
Toowoomba Chronicle - 5 October 2009
'Secret yearning to write crafts a rollicking read'
It was carved into Jane Grieve's palms. She would be a writer. Madeleine Logan.
The Courier-Mail - 16 September 2009
More than 100 guests toasted and celebrated the official launch of Slippin on the Lino by Courier Mail Editor, David Fagan
The Courier-Mail 12-13 September 2009
Book Review - Non-fiction books
That black Darling Downs mud really does stick. Despite Jane Grieve being a proper-brought-up lady these days, a sensible and creative mother of three down Warwick way, she grew up on flat plains outside the hamlet of Bowenville. And it was, we believe, that childhood down Carters Lane, where tracks turned to heavy molasses after rain and cracked wide in the dry, which colours the author's bold, ever-searching approach to life and language. First she was executive director to the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame. At 36 she became a mother for the first time. Three children later, Grieve became a columnist with The Courier-Mail, writing of adventures with kids and the Warwick farm, sometimes slipping back to recall throwing away school lunches into neighbouring paddocks on the way home. Here gathered is Grieve's collection of recollections, shaded with home-spun philosophies. She explores the world, marvels at life and motherhood with a rare forthrightness and dry sense of humour. "I've been slipping on the lino. Three square meals a day, but can't get any traction." There are yarns about kids being caught by kissing gangs, mares hiding from foals, headless chooks, trips on Melbourne trams, head lice, parenting perspectives and more. The words flow through 44 short pieces. There is no labouring, no waste. Punch lines are delivered with understatement and words of wisdom with care. In an Australia where life beyond the Dividing Range is often dismissed or ignored, Grieve's book is a valuable piece of work for today and tomorrow, a smorgasbord of reading that serves too as a slice of social history.
Bruce McMahon
Warwick Daily News - 11 September 2009
Queensland writer waxes lyrical about motherhood and life’s incidents
Queensland Country Life - 10 September 2009
Longreach Launch for Grieve's Book
Toowoomba Chronicle - 9 September 2009
Slippin on the Lino - On The Map
Warwick Daily News - 31 August 2009
Jane Grieve Launches Book of Slippery Tales
WE CAN ALL RELATE TO SLIPPIN’ ON THE LINO !!
Jane Grieve - a humorous breath of fresh air on Australian family life
An honest Australian writer has done what most of us think about but fail to start, let alone complete.
Jane Grieve, from Queensland, has put together her first book, a compilation of humour stories about raising a family. The book, titled Slippin’ on the Lino, is a collection of those funny, emotional, scary or just plain ridiculous moments in life that we all look back on and think, “I wish I had written all that down!”
Based on raising her own family, Jane’s book is a delightful and easy read. Sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, always insightful, anyone with a willingness to laugh, some quiet time for reflection and an appreciation of wry Australian humour will love Slippin’ on the Lino.
Says iconic Australian author Hugh Lunn of Slippin’ on the Lino, “These are stories that make you laugh out loud....stories so to be treasured that they make you cry, and make you remember what it is to be a human with a soul.”
Jane writes about her own kids; but really, they are your kids too. What parent hasn’t experienced nits, lost shoes, dodgy toothbrushes, difficult pets and sleepless nights? As Sir Robert Mathers says by way of endorsement, Slippin’ on the Lino will resonate with everyone.
“These stories are as vivid as smarties and as down to earth as a nit comb (but a hell of a lot more fun),” says Susan Maushart.
You will be able to relate to most of the incidents portrayed so incisively in Slippin’ on the Lino. You will nod your head in agreement, smile knowingly or wipe a tear from your eye while finding it difficult to put this flowing series of short stories down.
Jane Grieve declares that she has now entered stage four of her life - Stage 1 being The Child, 2 The Career Woman, 3 The Mother and now Stage 4, which is Jane the Writer.
Arising from a pledge given at the wake of a friend who died of Diabetes-related illness a year ago, 5% of the profits from the sale of Jane’s book will be donated to Diabetes Australia – Queensland.
Jane Grieve currently lives in Warwick, Queensland with her husband Robert.
www.janegrieve.com.au
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW: Jane Grieve - 0427 004 094
SLIPPIN’ ON THE LINO
Jane Grieve’s collection of short family humour stories under the title Slippin’ on the Lino (most of them originally published as columns in The Courier-Mail), is a delightful and easy read. Sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, always insightful, anyone with a willingness to laugh, some quiet time for reflection and an appreciation of wry Australian humour will enjoy this book.
Slippin’ on the Lino is enthusiastically endorsed by Hugh Lunn, Susan Maushart, Ken Cowley, Chris Mitchell, Bill Durack and Sir Robert Mathers.
A perfect gift, a great travel book and a must for every bedside, 5% of the profits from its sale will be donated to Diabetes Australia – Queensland.
Slippin’ on the Lino will be officially launched at Mary Ryan Milton on 15th September by David Fagan, editor of the Courier Mail. It is now available at all Pillow Talk stores, through Jane’s website www.janegrieve.com.au and it will be on sale at major bookstores, the Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Diabetes Australia – Queensland outlets from September.
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Potted Biography - Jane Grieve
Jane Grieve, Australian to the soles of her elastic-sided boots, was raised on a farm on the rich blacksoil Darling Downs in Southern Queensland.
She was the fourth of five daughters reared by her bomber-pilot-turned-farmer father, and her city-bred mother, a physiotherapist-turned-country housewife.
Educated at an exclusive girls boarding school which dealt out worthy but somewhat anachronistic values, Jane came down to earth with a thud on landing unceremoniously in the real world. University was not an automatic option for young women at that time, and anyway, Jane was impatient to begin experiencing life at the coal face. So she embarked upon a lifetime of education in the time-worn school of hard knocks. She went most places she wanted to go, tried most things at least once, shed as many tears and made as much laughter as anyone.
Her love of language and astute observations of people and places have been two major passions during a life spent moving amongst people of all persuasions, shapes and social aspirations.
Jane has travelled extensively - around Australia and New Zealand, the USA, Britain and Europe, with a few small islands in between. Her C.V. ranges from (not very good) grape-picker to mediocre outback stockman to dire station cook to very competent office administrator – but writing her wry observations of people and life is her first love.
Jane worked for 10 years with Australia’s legendary RM Williams, as C.E.O. of the company that established the highly successful Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame. She now works in office administration and writes for various publications.
While the distinctive Australian flavour of her work offers a particular perspective, it also serves to illustrate the similarities of lifestyles and values between English-speaking nations.
Her first book, Slippin’ on the Lino, is a compilation of some of the columns she has written for The Courier-Mail. Mostly wry observations of life to which men and women alike relate, they offer a simple, refreshing and hilarious take on family life in Australia. And they are well written, which is refreshing in itself.
Jane and her husband Robert currently live at Warwick and have three teenage children.
www.janegrieve.com.au