Ha ha hee hee ha ha ho! Too funny

This is just too hilarious.

It’s only taken me two-score plus years, sagging jowls and two bags of cellulite on each thigh to achieve this. Thank God I didn’t write any books on bikini-wearing or nudist colonies, let me just say that.

I must also say that during our family’s repatriation to Australia, amongst the expected stress of it all – I’ve had an enormous fear that my book success in the Jing – that incredible, supportive literary wave I’d been surfing – would die down rapidly to a mere ripple and lap meagrely against the shore, and that I would plop face-down in the sand never to rise again.

Thanks to the wonderful people at Canberra City News, I can now leap about on my metaphorical surfboard (saddle bags cannot stop me! jowls be damned!) in delight and shock that this would happen. Not only that, I’m being embraced by local schools to read Riley and the Sleeping Dragon and will soon hold an event at a local bookstore for Beijing Tai Tai.

Fear-of-wave-fading rapidly subsiding.

Covergirl.

Me?

Too crazy.

Too hilarious!

But if having my mug on a mag cover will plug these Beijing publications that are so close to my heart, I’m happy to live the covergirl facade.

Australia – here I come! Lucky we have some big waves here...

Tania McCartney