PRESS RELEASE: WRITER & LUCID DREAMER REIMAGINES AUSTRALIA – POST COLLAPSE

WRITER & LUCID DREAMER
REIMAGINES AUSTRALIA – POST COLLAPSE
Australian Dystopian Literary Fiction, EAT MY SHADOW, from the author of Living the Good Life RELEASED 21 AUGUST

20 years ago the world went quiet. Father is stranded between the living world and the lost, he saw the end and he can’t let it go. Finn was a child when it collapsed. Now he’s a young green vine growing up through the ribcage of a lost civilisation. It’s 2053, Father and Finn live alone in a remote valley in Tasmania. Everything is about to change. A story of survival, of being lost and finding ourselves again, and the love between a father and son.

WHAT PEOPLE KNOW
Linda Cockburn is best known for challenging her family to go six months without
spending a dollar by growing their own food, using bicycles for transport, harvesting
rainwater and sunlight from their roof in Living the Good Life, How One Family Changed
Their World From Their Own Backyard. Hardie Grant, 2006.
As a result the family had three television appearances and radio, newspaper and
magazine coverage, including Time Magazine. Linda has written for ABC Organic
Gardener Magazine since 2004.
More recently (2022) Linda has appeared on ABC Gardening Australia with partner Trev
Wittmer about their rare heirloom seed business, Seed Freaks (recently sold).

WHAT PEOPLE DON’T
Is that Linda wrote most of the book while lucid dreaming, a technique that took years to establish, but now allows her to write, usually in the middle of the night, and often
without recollection.
‘I didn’t realise what I was doing until I stumbled upon a description of lucid dreaming.
I’m not awake and I’m not asleep. The ego falls away and insights and connections I
might not have seen are revealed.
‘I see everything like a movie, hear the words and can semi‐wake to record long passages by memory, often in reverse.’

Linda’s passion is to connect people with the lives of their descendants,
and emphasise the part they’re playing in them.

EARLY REVIEWS
Love it! Real page turner. Read it in one sitting. The characters are
engaging and real, the situations logical and believable with great
tension and a pleasing ending. Timely as fuck.
Annette Hughes – retired Literary Agent/Cameron Cresswell

Wow. I absolutely loved it. Best thing I’ve read for ages. Amazing writing. And so many quotable word
pictures of how we got here. The story is totally engrossing.
Dr Helen Merrick – ex-Senior Lecturer Curtin University – Professional Writing.

Excerpt: Father removed a yellowed newspaper from a box stuffed with neatly indexed editions. He read
out an article quoting Alan Winchester, the last Prime Minister of Australia. Winchester’s indiscreet comments
made in front of a journalist at a party had caused a national uproar.
‘Climate Change and talk of mass starvation don’t worry me; as far as I’m concerned, future generations can eat my shadow and swallow my echo.’ Later, when asked to comment, Alan Winchester said it resulted from a gastric attack due to an adverse reaction between veal and scotch.
Father tapped the article several times, drew in his breath, then carefully folded the newspaper and tucked it back in the box. ‘His was a shadow which cast no shade.’ And shoved it to the back of the shelf.

Linda Cockburn

For further information, interviews or an epub/mobi download link or book for review purposes www.togetherpress.com.au for sample chapter 4 – Refugee Exodus from Hobart

Available at 40,000 global booksellers/libraries
contact Linda Cockburn email [email protected]

ISBN: 978‐0‐6455142‐0‐9 $26.95 (pbk)
ISBN: 978‐0‐6455142‐4‐7 $9.95 (epub)
ISBN: 978‐0‐6455142‐5‐4 $9.95 (mobi)