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Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
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Another rejection for our lovely Michi Girl today. Poor thing, I hope she knows we still love her... and her delightful new book What on Earth are you Wearing? It really is a splendid read, even if you just look at the pretty pictures with your 5 year old niece like I did. - Jenny x
So here we are, three weeks out from our print date and we still have not got past the title/cover issues. I was not that happy with the name – still. I kept doing that thing, you know when you think something is a genius idea, sleep on it for a day or two then decide it was a crap idea to begin with? I usually think all my ideas are the greatest thing ever, so to wake up and decide I hated something was quite confronting. Imagine having such a hard time naming a book? Can you imagine naming a child? I mean, a book surely has a shorter shelf life than a human, right?
I wanted something that said ‘Encyclopedia’ without actually saying it. I thought that this idea was golden, I really did.
What do you think?
From A-cup to Ze Bra
A Michipedia of Fashion.
Good huh?
Well, no. Rejected again. Penguin said it wasn’t catchy enough, not enough attitude. Personally I would have thought that teasing A-cups (like my flat chested self) would have been a winner. The UK publisher liked it but that was where it ended.
So, three titles down and still the jury is out.
It’s all leaving me a little fatigued.
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