THE WALLABY TRACK WITH LIONEL MUSSELL
CARAVANNING
AND RVING IN AUSTRALIA CLOSES
REGRETFULLY , LIONEL HAD TO SCRAP HIS WEBSITE – A LABOUR OF LOVE THAT WAS MANY , MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING .
Many years ago , I set up a website to answer caravanning queries and to sell my books .
Recently , there was an update done at the server and my website missed out . After a couple of frustrating days trying to get it fixed ,
I decided Caravanning and RVing in Australia
had reached the end of its useful service and decided to scrap it . There were a lot of broken
links and updates needed and I didn ' t have the energy to fix it .
NOSTALGIA !
Looking back at some of the website content , I found a few articles about trips I had done and one in particular brought back some great memories .
I had a contract with a publisher for a new book and decided I needed to do a trip around Australia again to make sure everything was as I remembered it , and so I set off on what turned out to be a 37-day epic . I followed the
coast clockwise for most of the way , but went down to Alice Springs and back up to Three Ways before heading west from Katherine .
From Broome , I followed the coast to Port
Augusta , where I headed north to Uluru and back to the coast to finish my journey home .
The publisher had agreed to finance the trip but after returning home and spending three weeks putting the finishing touches on the manuscript , I received a phone call from the editor I was working with . Bad news . It seemed every department of the publishing firm was making a profit except his so he and his boss were told to clear their desks and not to come in on Monday !
The really bad news was that they were not going to pay the agreed expenses ! Two unanswered letters prompted me to engage a solicitor and the lady who took on my case received a positive response . They said they would pay the expenses but would retain the copyright for the book .
She very quickly told them that the copyright belonged to the author so they couldn ’ t retain what wasn ' t theirs in the first place .
I successfully published the book , Australia Calling , myself !
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