I've been a bit quiet with this, but still plan to go ahead with it. Basically my day job has been busy, Linda and I are preparing for the birth of our first child, and I had some books I needed to finish writing before the sleeplessness that's to come. 8)
To make this easier for me to manage, I've arranged for this to be rolled into some stuff I do at work (I'm a public librarian). I did set up a blog for this and make a few posts, but they didn't seem to be catching views. By adding them in as a column on my work's page, I know they'll have a least a few hundred followers, and some of the maintenance tasks will be handled by other staff.
So, it will relaunch on 9 March, which is Read Aloud Day. It will be hosted on Book coasters (
http://gcbooks.wordpress.com/) which is my work blog (not representing my employer on this forum, sorry for the legalese). On the blog where the current Big Reading Challenge icon is, there will instead be an icon called "Aussie Voices", which is what I'll be calling this now. The first post will be Algy Pug's rendition of The Play by CJ Dennis, which will go live on 23 March.
The trade off is that I need to spruik library resources as well, so there will be links to the GCCC catalog, and to Bolinda audiobooks, in some of the posts. On the up side I'll be presenting some technology training workshops on podcasting, so it might get us some more Librivoxers.
I was trying to keep this separate from my work, but I underestimated the amount of preparation this whole fatherhood thing would take. 8)
