CROSSING PATHS : The BookCrossing Novel by Debbie Robson

Crossing Paths by Debbie Robson

BookCrossing, a real life online book club, is in many ways a parallel universe. It is a place where someone in the US may buy a book for a BookCrosser in Australia, without the two of them ever meeting. It is about finding books on the end of a pier, at Paddington Station, at your favourite park and unless you are on the site you don't know these books are there. People walk past them oblivious; some pick them up briefly but then leave them behind. BookCrossers know to catch these books to find out where they have been, read them and then release them.

At BookCrossing books are registered and released with an individual tracking number. A good many drop off the radar and then turn up years later at the strangest of places. In Crossing Paths the main character Jane drops off the radar - for the other characters who are worried about her the clues to where she might be are on her BookCrossing bookshelf. Russell Dark, a book store owner and Jonathan Fairlight, a new age writer, begin to track her through the books she leaves behind. Within these pages eight people who cross paths with Jane Townsend will have their lives changed forever.

If you've found a message in a bottle for Crossing Paths click here to contact the author. I would love to hear from you and I will let you know when and where the bottle was released into the ocean.

If you would like to participate and throw your own personalised bottle into the ocean near you please don't hesitate to contact me. You can select one of 52 books featured in the novel to personalise your flier and add your name if you wish. I will be keeping of track of what bottles have been released where. Here is the flier I dropped into the Pacific Ocean at Newcastle Harbour on New Year's Day. Below the flier are details of messages in bottles already released.

Newcastle Harbour 1/1/2011 10 bottles released by Debbie Robson
Swansea Channel 8/1/2011 10 bottles released by Debbie Robson