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The Sunshine Coast keeps a calendar of its own — whales in July, wallum wildflowers in September, frog-song on the first warm storm nights. Leave one email address and you'll always know where the year is up to, and you'll hear first about the book and the app.
One address, three reasons
01 · The seasonal dispatch
A short letter, about once a month: what's flowering, what's arriving, what's spawning, what's burning — and where to stand to see it. The coast runs to its own schedule; this is the reminder service, written in the same voice as the book. Free, and staying that way.
02 · The app waitlist
Reading the Country is on its way — the book as you'd want it on a walk: it works out what's underfoot and finds the guide for it, authored, cited, and readable with no signal at all. Join the list and you're first in: early access when it opens, and the founding member's price.
03 · Launch news
Same Sky, Different Ground — nineteen chapters, from the reef to the range — arrives as an EPUB on 15 July 2026, for A$9.99. You'll get one email when it's live, so you don't have to keep checking back. That is the entire marketing campaign.
What it reads like
From the dispatch · July, for instance
The humpback highway crests this month — whales streaming north past Point Cartwright and the headlands, close and reliable, no boat required. Down in the forest it's the lean season, which is exactly why the ironbarks and the swamp mahogany matter: their winter nectar is what keeps the honeyeaters, lorikeets and gliders going until spring.
And if you'd rather something wilder to think about at your desk: grey nurse sharks gather year-round at Wolf Rock, off Double Island Point. They're there right now.
About monthly — when the season turns, not when a content calendar says so. If the country isn't doing anything worth telling you about, nothing gets sent.
Nothing. The dispatch is free and stays free. The book costs A$9.99, and only if you decide you want it.
It's used for the dispatch and for nothing else. Never sold, never shared, never “passed to carefully selected partners”.
One click at the bottom of any email, no guilt trip. The whales will keep migrating either way.
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