The December issue of Australian Model Railway Magazine features two of my books in the reviews section.
My latest title Model Railway Weathered Wonders and this year’s Model Railway Backdrop Basics are still recieving a lot of exposure, thanks to readers of this blog and the continued exposure by way of a book giveaway over on Will James’ YouTube channel. However, it was a good friend of mine who contacted me while I was on holidays to break the news of my books being featured in this month’s issue of Australian Model Railway Magazine. At the time, my wife and I were heading south to Victoria, so we pulled in at Goulburn in New South Wales to see if we could find a copy.
I always buy my copies of AMRM at my local newsagency in Brisbane, as I still believe it is important to keep the hobby present on a magazine rack for casual passers-by to discover. Turns out, First Inland City Newsagency in Goulburn had a pile of almost 20 on display. Thanks go to the AMRM team for the kind mention and outline of what each of the two books cover.
As part of my holiday plans, I disconnected from the internet, social media, emails and paused my eBay shop for a little over 3 weeks. Sometimes you just have to do that, even if it means completely ignoring any Black Friday sales, new model announcements and the such. While the break did me a world of good, I still did manage to take a few railway related photographs of some stations and trains that I’d never seen before in my travels, including the Blues Train on the Bellarine Penninsula and the Ballarat Tramway Museum. Until floods and a landslide cancelled our plans for the Walhalla Goldfields Railway in Gippsland. (More on them as time permits…).
So fresh back this week from my trip down south, I’ve been busy posting out hobby shop orders that were waiting for me, and individual copies that started selling like crazy over the weekend once my eBay shop resumed as normal. To the point where I’ve almost sold out! I’ll now need to wait until late January before I can place another volume order with the publisher to replenish my stock.
With only 6 weeks before I commence full-time study in the New Year, it seems I have a long list of projects that I know I simply won’t finish before my free time disappears completely. One of which unfortunately includes completing my 6th Philden Model Railway book by the end of the year. It may now have to wait until a late 2024 release. So, if you’re after any of my 5 titles in the the lead-up to Christmas, then try stores such as Trainworld in Melbourne or Australian Modeller in Sydney. There are links for each title on my Bookshop Page.
Until next time…
