Hi. MK is running flat-out with NHJ! promotional and media appearances right now. Here are a few upcoming events:

a) she's debated former Liberal Senator and ex-Howard staffer Michael Baume for the SKY News program 'Australian Agenda'. This will run Sunday (4 July) in the morning and the evening slots (7.30 am and 10.30 pm), and Monday (5 July) at 1.30 pm;
b) She's chatting with ABC metropolitan radio's 'Sunday Nights' presenter John Cleary this weekend, from 10 pm;
c) Gerard Henderson's Sydney Institute has also generously invited MK to give an address some time in August, so keep your eyes out on that one; and
d) tomorrow she'll be 'mini-relaunching' Not Happy John! at Bungedore, just north-east of the national capital: Saturday 3 July 2004, Canberra. 12.30pm - A SUITABLE BOOK event, Village Square, Malbon St, Bungendore. Contact Mark Thornton on 02-62381648

Busy girl. She'll start blogging here from next week. Meantime, keep those reviews and comments coming in. But please - while we love to hear fiercely critical takes on NHJ!, can those of you who (apparently) get off on bombarding us with personal abuse of MK give it a bit of a rest? Hmm? We're actually not sanctimoniously claiming to have all - or even any - of the answers here (or in the book), but even if you do think this post-publishing net-experiment is a self-important, too-precious waste of time, there's no real need to bung up our intrays with filth. We'd like to get a grown-up conversation about NHJ! going, and it's a bit hard when you have to wade through several layers of 'f**king b**ch' junk (and worse) to get at the underlying opposing ideas. Obviously MK herself tends to shrug it off these days (after years of practice), but me, I'm a big softie wuss, I am...