In the Media 2012

27 August 2012

There is a lot happening around the MidnightSun headquarters. Anna Solding was interviewed by Cath Kenneally at Radio Adelaide’s Arts Breakfast on Saturday 18 August and Zanesh Catkin was interviewed on the same program a week later, on Saturday 25 August.

You can listen to Anna’s interview here.

Zanesh’s interview will soon be available.

Zanesh was also interviewed by Tim Brunero on his Radio Adelaide breakfast show on Thursday 23 August. Listen to what he had to say here.

24 August 2012

Pangamonium by Zanesh Catkin has had another rave review, this time in Adelaide’s independent InDaily. There was even a teaser on the front page. How could you go past a book that is:

‘Quirky, thought-provoking and completely different from anything else currently on the market, Pangamonium is highly recommended.’ – Samantha Bond, InDaily

18 August 2012

Pangamonium is attracting attention in blogger world. Here is the first positive and well articulated review: http://thischarmingmum.com/2012/08/18/review-pangamonium-by-zanesh-catkin/ Congratulations to Zanesh!

14 August 2012

The first review of Pangamonium appeared in The Age on Saturday 11 August and it’s a fine one. Congratulations to Zanesh! Hopefully, there will be many more to come.

The Saturday Age review

11 August 2012

Life & Style page 33

Review by OWEN RICHARDSON

FRANCIS Germaine turns up in the fic­titious country of Panga, somewhere in a kind of patchwork Identikit of every Asian country, and at the customs desk finds his suitcase has been mixed up with someone else’s.

The upshot of the confusion lands him in jail, accompanied by a black guy called Easter who has come to Panga to find the treasure apparently buried under his grandfather’s grave. Germaine is the less exalted kind of freelance writer – trade mags, com­pany reports – and he thinks this new development will give him the adven­tures he needs to boost his pride and his bank account.

In the offing are Marman Granthi, a factory owner whose workers are young and unfree and make cheap stuff for rich whities, his Bollywood-­obsessed gatekeeper Daied, and Amila the quietly feisty librarian.

Zanesh Catkin (can that be his real name?) has some good satirical ideas about Panga, but the writing itself can be a little sketchy. The humour is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair as well. But he’s come up with a winning creation in Easter, with his quest and mildly deranged airs; there are clever spoof articles that Germaine has written for magazines ranging from Kids Life Digest to Repressive States Quarterly Lit Review, and the action is sharply paced. Things seem to get a little sticky towards the end, though, when Germaine finds his redemption, but Catkin gives it an impressively peculiar flourish: Germaine’s last article is called “Magic tits or male lactation?”‘

 

7 April 2012

Looks like Adelaide loves The Hum of Concrete too! Read the lovely review in The Advertiser on Saturday 7 April 2012. Life doesn’t get much better than this for a new publisher! Well, if it all translates into sales…

Great review in The Advertiser!
Great review in The Advertiser!

 

24 March 2012

The positive reviews keep coming in and we can’t stop smiling. This weekend, Saturday 24 March 2012, The Hum of Concrete was praised in The Canberra Times.

Another positive review!
Another positive review!

 

17 March 2012

On Saturday 17 March 2012, MidnightSun Publishing and The Hum of Concrete was discussed in the Sydney Morning Herald. It’s great to feel that there is plenty of support out there for us as a fresh new publisher.

Good Literature is what we know best
Good Literature is what we know best

 

10 March 2012

The Hum of Concrete was favorably reviewed in the Saturday Age on 10 March 2012. It is so wonderful to see that reviewers are enjoying Anna Solding’s enchanting first novel.

Amazing review of The Hum of Concrete in The Age
Amazing review of The Hum of Concrete in The Age

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MidnightSun has already had a fair amount of media attention thanks to our great publicist, John Harris of Impress Media.

 

2 February 2012

On 2 February 2012, founder Anna Solding appeared on page three of Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser with Internode’s Simon Hackett, who was about to launch the company, and co-founder Ross Williams.

Solding, Hackett and Williams. Advertiser. 2 feb 2012
Solding, Hackett and Williams. The Advertiser. 2 Feb 2012
Solding Support Crew. The Advertiser. 2 Feb 2012
Solding Support Crew. The Advertiser. 2 Feb 2012
Solding looking to the future. Advertiser. 2 Feb 2012
Solding looking to the future. The Advertiser. 2 Feb 2012

 

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