Media Coverage

2025

• Blog review: Our recommendations on the best travel books for Greece in Travelreads, 26 October 2025
• Newspaper feature: Greek Elder Care Network Hosts Book Club Session on Repacking for Greece in The National Herald, 12 July 2025
• Blog review: 14 recommended reads for those traveling to Greece, by Holly Wielkoszewski in Modern Mrs Darcy, 21 May 2025
• Blog round-up: Mother’s Day: 10 Stories About Mothers & Daughters, by Maria A. Karamitsos, 6 May 2025
• Magazine review: Book Reviews: Unpacking for Greece, by Dr Susan Steggall in Women’s Ink! Autumn edition, March 2025
• Blog review: Smorgasbord Book Reviews – #Memoir Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey (Packing for Greece travel series) by Sally Jane Smith in Smorgasbord Blog Magazine by Sally Cronin, 29 March 2025
• Newsletter review: A Winter Walk in Greece, by Christine and Val Karren of Fly-by-Night Press, 28 February 2025
• YouTube photo collage: Islands & Sites of Greece | from Repacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith, Fly-by-Night Press, 28 February 2025
• Guest blog post: Literary Wanderlust in Greece in Travel Europe Through Books, 13 February 2025
• YouTube review: Lane Cove Library Staff Book Review of Unpacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith, 7 February 2025
• YouTube interview and podcast: Baklava and Banter with Petrakis and Soto, 22 January 2025
• Radio interview: Conversations with Rebecca Hopper on CoastFM, Sunday 19 January 2025

2024

• Newspaper “staff picks” article: Neos Kosmos‘s Reading List for the Holidays in Neos Kosmos by Nelly Skoufatoglou and Fotis Kapetopoulos, 17 December 2024
• 2024 Retrospective: Top 10 Reads of 2024 in My Greek Books by Maria A. Karamitsos, 10 December 2024
• Newspaper article: Book signing to celebrate restaurant re-launch in Coast Community News, 9 December 2024
• Newspaper article: Authors of Greek-themed books hold signing together in Peninsula News, 9 December 2024
• Newspaper feature: Sally Jane Smith Wins Greek-Australian Cultural League’s Book Award in The National Herald, 4 December 2024
• Media feature: Greece travel author recognized in prestigious literary awards in Hellenic Media Group Εθελοντικό Δημοσιογραφικό Δίκτυο, 4 December 2024
• Newspaper article: Greek Australian Cultural League releases results of its Literary Competition and Book Awards in The Greek Herald, 19 November 2024
• Newspaper article: Greek-Australian Cultural League announces winners of 2024 Literary Competition and Book Awards in Neos Kosmos, 19 November 2024
• Newspaper article: Βραβεία του Λογοτεχνικού Διαγωνισμού και του Βραβείο Βιβλίου 2024 του Ελληνο-Αυστραλιανού Πολιτιστικού Συνδέσμου in Neos Kosmos, 18 November 2024 (translated title: ‘Awards of the Greek-Australian Cultural League Literary Competition and Book Award 2024’)
• Newspaper article: Search for next wave of Central Coast authors in Coast Community News, 15 November 2024
• Newspaper and blog review: Repacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith, by Suzie Eisfelder in Suz’s Space, also syndicated in Toorak Times, 8 October 2024
• Substack interview: Unpacking for Greece: Meet Author Sally Jane Smith by Mike Gerrard of Greece Travel Secrets, 5 October 2024
• Newspaper feature: Greek Elder Care Network Presents Book Club Discussion with Sally Jane Smith in The National Herald, 15 September 2024
• Event listing within longer article: Greek Elder Care Presents Hellenic American Project’s Oral History Live in Queens Gazette, 11 September 2024
• Newspaper feature: Μία διαδικτυακή συζήτηση-βιβλίου με την συγγραφέα του «Unpacking for Greece» in Neos Kosmos, 5 September 2024 (translated title: ‘An online book discussion with the author of “Unpacking for Greece”‘)
• Literary review: Lead Review (Repacking for Greece) in TripFiction by Linda Lappin, 3 September 2024
• Newspaper feature: Virtual Discussion of ‘Unpacking for Greece’ by Sally Jane Smith, September 25 in Hellenic Daily News NY, 3 September 2024
• Newspaper feature: Greek Elder Care Network hosts virtual book club discussion with Australian author Sally Jane Smith in Neos Kosmos, 31 August 2024
• Newspaper feature: Greek Elder Care Network Hosts Sally Jane Smith by Maria A Karamitsos in Greek City Times, 27 August 2024
• Event listing: In Conversation with Sally Jane Smith – Packing for Greece in Neos Kosmos, 8 August 2024
• Event listing: Walkabout Wildlife Book Fair in Love Central Coast, August 2024
• Magazine feature: Mates’ Rates Discounts for First Walkabout Wildlife Book Fair in Your Guide Central Coast, August 2024
• Newspaper feature: Book fair with a difference at wildlife sanctuary, in Coast Community News, 29 July 2024
• Event listing: Walkabout Wildlife Book Fair by Ashleigh Meikle, in Weekend Notes, 28 July 2024
• Podcast interview: Greece Solo Adventures, with Lisa Eldridge, on Girl about the Globe Episode #129, 22 July 2024
• Newspaper feature: Διάλεξη της συγγραφέως Sally Jane Smith στην Αδελαΐδα για βιβλία που έγραψε για την Ελλάδα in The Greek Tribune, July 2024 (translated title: ‘Lecture by author Sally Jane Smith at Adelaide for books she wrote about Greece’)
• Blog review: Repacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith in The Book Stop by Curly Geek, 11 July 2024
• Event listing: In Conversation with Sally Jane Smith – Packing for Greece in In the Cove, 10 July 2024
• Newspaper feature: Festival Hellenika welcomes ‘Unpacking for Greece’ author to Adelaide in The Greek Herald, 5 July 2024
• Newspaper feature: Το Festival Hellenika καλωσορίζει τη συγγραφέα του «Unpacking for Greece» στην Αδελαΐδα in Neos Kosmos, 26 June 2024 (translated title: ‘Festival Hellenika welcomes the author of Unpacking for Greece to Adelaide’)
• Newspaper feature: Festival Hellenika to host Sally Jane Smith author of Unpacking for Greece to Adelaide in Neos Kosmos, 26 June 2024
• Event listing: Book Talk with Sally Jane Smith: Unpacking for Greece, in Weekend Notes Adelaide, 26 June 2024
• Blog feature: Repacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith, in Around Greece, 16 June 2024
• Blog review: Writing and Reviews by Yvette M Calleiro, 31 May 2024
• Blog review: Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey by Sally Jane Smith, by Ashleigh Meikle in The Book Muse, 25 May 2024
• Radio interview: How and why Greece changed the life of Australian author Sally Jane Smith with Efthymios (Themi) Kallos on SBS Radio Elliniká Greek Language Program, 23 May 2024
• Newspaper feature: Greece travel book to be showcased in Writers’ Festival event in Ta Nea, 16 May 2024
• Newspaper feature: ‘Repacking for Greece’ set for book launch at Words on the Waves Writers’ Festival in Neos Kosmos, 16 May 2024
• Youtube interview: An afternoon with Roulakk and author Sally Jane Smith with Roula Krikellis, 16 May 2024
• Newspaper feature: Greece travel memoir to be showcased in Words on the Waves Writers’ Festival event in NSW by Maria A Karamitsos in Greek City Times, 14 May 2024
• Blog review: Repacking For Greece by Sally Jane Smith: Book Review in Brizzy May’s Books and Bruschetta, 13 May 2024
• YouTube review: Memoirs set in Greece, by TripFiction, 12 May 2024
• Magazine review: Three Brand-New Memoirs in Snapshot! by Alyson Sheldrake, 1 May 2024
• Newspaper feature: Central Coast Writer Repacks for Greece in Coast Community News by Terry Collins, 1 May 2024
• Newspaper feature: Sally Jane Smith’s ‘Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey’ Available Now in The National Herald by Eleni Sakellis, 27 April 2024
• Newspaper feature: Sally Jane Smith’s New Travel Memoir Takes Us Back to Greece by Maria A Karamitsos in Greek City Times, 20 April 2024
• Blog interview: Meet Author Sally Jane Smith in Peter Barber’s blog, 18 April 2024
• Blog review: Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey by Sally Jane Smith in Marvellous Memoirs by Valerie Poore, 17 April 2024
• Radio interview: Central Coast Breakfast with Scott Levi, on ABC Radio, 15 April 2024 [at time stamp 2:07:54 – 2:15]
• Blog feature: Smorgasbord New Book Spotlight – #Memoir Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey (Packing for Greece travel series) by Sally Jane Smith in Smorgasbord Blog Magazine by Sally Cronin, 15 April 2024
• Blog review: April 2024 Reads in My Greek Books by Maria A. Karamitsos, April 2024
• Radio interview: Central Coast Breakfast with Scott Levi, on ABC Radio, 5 April 2024 [at time stamp 1:15 – 1:23]
• Round-up article: Mnemosyni’s Musings… Greek Travel Memoirs, by Maria A Karamitsos in Neo Magazine, 2 April 2024
• Radio interview: Greek News & Radio, Florida – The Weekend Show with Paul James, 31 March 2024
• Blog feature: Press Release: Repacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith in LooknWalk Greece @ Greecelogue.com, 26 March 2024
• Radio interview: Harmony Day event with The Alibi Show, Alive 90.5 FM, 23 March 2024
• Newspaper feature: Sally Jane Smith’s journey through Greece continues in ‘Repacking for Greece’ in Neos Kosmos, 13 March 2024
• Newspaper and blog review: Unpacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith, by Suzie Eisfelder in Suz’s Space, also syndicated in Toorak Times, 11 March 2024
• Blog review: Unpacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith, by Ashleigh Meikle in The Book Muse, 7 March 2024
• Radio show: Rebroadcast of Greece is the Word interview on Greek-Australian station Radio ENA, Adelaide, 29 February and 2 March 2024
• Newspaper feature: Coast Author’s Fascinating Take on Greece in Coast Community News by Terry Collins, 26 February 2024
• Blog feature: In the Sun and in the Rain, by Sophia Kouidou-Giles, 1 February 2024
• 2023 Retrospective: Top Ten New-to-me Authors in 2023 in The Book Stop by CurlyGeek, 30 January 2024
• YouTube interview: Greece is the Word with Peter Daskarolis, 8 January 2024
• 2023 Retrospective: Top 10 Memoirs of 2023 in Snapshot! by Alyson Sheldrake, 1 January 2024

2023

• 2023 Retrospective: Top 10 Reads of 2023 in My Greek Books by Maria A. Karamitsos, 31 December 2023
• YouTube interview and podcast: Greece Chats Podcast with Tony Kariotis, 29 December 2023
• Magazine interview: Αδειάζοντας τις βαλίτσες- η Ελλάδα μέσα από τα μάτια της συγγραφέως  Σάλυ Τζέιν Σμιθ in distaff by Chryssoula Katsarou, 4 September 2023 (translated title: ‘Unpacking Greece – through the eyes of writer Sally Jane Smith’)
• Radio interview: Greek News & Radio, Florida – The Weekend Show with Paul James, 3 September 2023
• Magazine interview: Meet the Author: Sally Jane Smith for Snapshot! by Alyson Sheldrake, 1 September 2023
• Podcast interview: It’s All Greek to Me Episode 21 with ‘Alex the Greek’ Alexandrou, 25 August 2023
• Blog feature: #TenThingsYouMayNotKnowAbout Author Sally Jane Smith in The Write Stuff by Marcia Meara, 26 July 2023
• Greek government website feature: Book of the Month: ‘Unpacking for Greece’, a Travel Memoir by Sally Jane Smith in Greek News Agenda, 18 July 2023
• Blog review: #Memoir #Greece Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta by Sally Jane Smith in Smorgasbord Blog Magazine by Sally Cronin, 15 July 2023
• Blog review: Unpacking For Greece by Sally Jane Smith: Book Review in Brizzy May’s Books and Bruschetta, 22 June 2023
• Newspaper feature: Compelling Travel Memoir, Unpacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith in The National Herald by Eleni Sakellis, 25 June 2023
• Blog review: Armchair travels – a Greek adventure in Gum Trees and Galaxies, 20 June 2023
• Podcast review: Library of Lost Time – Strong Sense of Place by Melissa Joulwan and David Humphreys (first 3 minutes), 16 June 2023
• Blog feature: New Book on the Shelves – #Memoir #Greece Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta by Sally Jane Smith in Smorgasbord Blog Magazine by Sally Cronin, 7 June 2023
• Blog review: Unpacking for Greece by Sally Jane Smith in The Book Stop by Curly Geek, 6 June 2023
• Magazine review: Memorable Memoirs in Snapshot! by Alyson Sheldrake, 1 June 2023
• Literary review: Memoir/travelogue set in GREECE in TripFiction by Linda Lappin, 31 May 2023
• Newspaper feature: Two Great Travel Books to Feature at Local Writers Festival in Coast Community News by Terry Collins, 21 May 2023
• Newspaper event listing: Free Book Launch and Family Day at Writers’ Festival in Peninsula Community Access News, 15 May 2023
• Blog review: May 2023 Reads in My Greek Books by Maria A. Karamitsos, May 2023
• YouTube panel discussion: JourneyWoman Writers’ Circle, 25 May 2023
• Blog review: Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a land of fortresses, fables, ferries and feta by Sally Jane Smith in Marvellous Memoirs by Valerie Poore, 23 May 2023
• Podcast travel feature: Travel to the eastern Peloponnese and Saronic islands, Greece – Amateur Traveler Episode 833, 22 January 2023
• Podcast travel feature: Travel to Athens, Greece – Amateur Traveler Episode 832, 15 January 2023

2021

• Magazine feature: Tackling the Professional Edit: An Emerging Author’s First Experience in Women’s Ink! Spring/Summer edition, November 2021
• Interview: A New Author’s Perspective on the Editing Process: An Interview With Sally Jane Smith for NY Book Editors, 3 February 2021

2020

• Interview: “A Cautionary Tale: JourneyWomen Who Never Leave Home Without Travel Insurance” for JourneyWoman, 16 September 2020

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