The Strength of Our Dreams by Sara Henderson

Author:Sara Henderson [Sara Henderson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781743341711
Publisher: Momentum
Published: 2012-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

May 1995 – September 1995

May was full of film offers for book number one. I have often read stories about writers not having any business sense. This belief must be widespread, as some of the contracts I received were laughable. One contract offered me five hundred dollars in return for a world option on my story. The man called a few days later wanting to know why I hadn’t contacted him to take up his offer!

I have been receiving offers since the first week the book was released and have quite a file now. But I am a bit stubborn. So until I read a fair contract—for me—they will keep piling up in the file. Meanwhile, I am learning a lot about film contracts and what not to sign.

Before long I was off to Sydney to do a Qantas advertisement, to Melbourne to speak for a charity, back to Sydney for another fundraiser then onto Fiji for a business conference. I came home from Fiji through Sydney and it took another four days before I managed to make it to Bullo.

When I returned I was home for two months! I locked myself in the office for many reasons—the mustering season was beginning, the accountant needed figures and piles of mail had to be opened. From August onwards it would be back to non-stop appointments until December, as it had been each year. I sat down and tried to work out why each year the last six months just seem to spin out of control.

While I liked to think the reason I was at home for so long was to get my life under control, the real reason could have been that we were having so many people to visit. Our first visitors were family. Ever since I moved to Bullo I have tried to get my sister Susan to visit. I had never succeeded—she wouldn’t come anywhere near the place. I can understand this attitude in the early years, but lately Bullo has become a nice place to visit. So her husband Ralph and I thought if he and my brother Tod came, Susan might join them. The big surprise was that Frances, Tod’s wife, wanted to come. Fran is such a gentle soul I just thought the wilds of Bullo would not interest her in the least, so I was delighted when she said she would love to visit.

I ended up with Ralph, Tod, Frances, and an old family friend, Don McFadden, but no Susan. They all had a great time and I enjoyed their visit so much. Ralph went home saying our plan to get Susan to Bullo had failed, but he had a great holiday trying to achieve it!

They left the day before we had twenty-two New Zealand cattlemen and women for the day including a sit-down lunch. There was only time for a deep breath in between the family’s departure, drafting cattle in the yards and the arrival of our new guests. We mustered cattle during the family visit and were still drafting when the New Zealanders were here.

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