Can you feel it?
Sep. 15th, 2021 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
medievalrosalie
Exciting news, lovers of books!
I was approached by Jack, the lovely Librarian from the Braille House Library in Brisbane. He came to one of my Brisbane Libraries talks at Sandgate Library and hoped I would be pleased to hear that my book, The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women was pegged for transcription into braille.
Braille House is run by the Queensland Braille Writing Association and it houses a free lending braille lending library. Classics and well as modern books are translated into braille to make books of all genres and interests available to readers.
As with other libraries in Brisbane, it's a free service and relies heavily on volunteers to make books accessible to their wider audience. Since 1897, Braille House has supported literacy for children and adults who are blind or have low vision and on Saturday August 17th it launched a second-hand book shop, Bookshop 507 at 507 Ipswich Road, Annerley as a great way to help fund making Braille books so that they can ensure that readers have access to them into the future.
This is such a really great service, and I'm very excited to have my book considered for inclusion.
How seriously great is that?
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