Don't believe all you read in the paper

IT ALL BEGAN WITH THIS...
Runaway books’ epic adventures

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(my screen name on BookCrossing is JPCArmidale)..

Hello JPCArmidale,
Are you the reporter who wrote the story for the Armidale express? If so,thankyou. I've made a lovely friend as a result from your article and the curiosity it inspired in a reader. The real story for the book has only just begun...
makemycake

Hello makemycake,
Yes you've rumbled me. I was checking out bookcrossing and noticed your recently released book, and thought it would make a nice story. Didn't think it would be front page (but then, the Extra is a free paper and we're short on news at this time of year! Also, the quote from the minister was good.)
Did you have more on the story that you wanted to tell me?
JPCArmidale

Hello JPCArmidale,
Nothing you're going to want to publish. I set the alert before I went on holidays, as I knew internet access was unlikely. I like to bookcross when holidays. We took our 11 month old and dog with our caravan and were extremely disorganised, particularly since we werent sure if our mobiles updated to daylight saving or not. Short story is I missed the midnight mass, and forgot to release it at church the next day and on Sunday. We came back home with book a fortnight or so later. A few days ago I recieved a private message on book cross from a reader inspired by your
article telling me of it's existence, at which point I felt a bit embarrassed that my stuff up had people, including the minister looking for something that wasn't even there. I have explained what went down to the member and we've exchanged a few letters and I've even sent her a book. So it was rather nice to gain a 'pen pal' out of it anyway. The book is currently on it's way to the minister and I've asked him to leave it in the church where I had intended all along. I've reset the alert for next week, but I won't say in the journal notes why. Hope this completes the circle
for you.
makemycake

Well makemycake, all I can say is Be sure your sins will find you out! (Numbers 32:23)
Fancy leading the good folk of Armidale astray like that via their trusty newspaper (circulation 10,000). AND a minister of the church. Still, at least you sound penitent and are making amends...
JPCArmidale

The story behind the story

Here's a link to the article CQU's publicity dept produced about my Rebecca James story:

So slack

In my defence, I'd like to point out that I have been waiting for my software developer husband to wrap a website around my blog, so that I can build pages for some of my articles.

But as they say, the builder's wife waits longest for her shelves (at least I think they say something along those lines...)

Anyway, now blogger-in-draft has pages, problem solved.