Kerrod Trott 
Based at Yankalilla, Freestyle Publishing was officially established in July 2008 by journalist and writer Lorraine Day (Pictured above, Centre), and specialises in Australian historical, biographical and eco-tourism publications, with an emphasis on outback pioneers and explorers, Australia’s first peoples, their lives, cultures and achievements, our rural pastoralists, farmers and horticulturists, and custodians of our present and future food bowls and national economy.
Lorraine Day began her writing career in Melbourne as a journalist for trade newspapers and magazines in the fields of hospitality, travel, aviation, and transport, and was Melbourne journalist for national shipping paper Daily Commercial News.
Lorraine then travelled to Central Australia and the Northern Territory where she spent 10 years, during which time she wrote for the Darwin Advertiser and NT News, as well as freelancing for several publications.
After returning south, Lorraine worked for the Warrnambool Gazette and Portland Observer until settling in Adelaide in 1995, where she worked for South Australia Statewide until its demise.
It was then she started her own business offering publishing support to other authors and producing her own books. (She was also the South Australian journalist for the industrial cleaning magazine Inclean for 10 years.)
Lorraine moved to Yankalilla in February 2017.
Books that Lorraine has written include:
Bulldust & Bough Shades: over 100 years of horse racing in Central Australia (produced in 1981 for the Centenary of the Central Australian Racing Club),
Gidgee and Grit: A history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead (launched in 2012 at Ross River Homestead by Ted Egan),
Gordon of Dingley Dell: The life of Adam Lindsay Gordon, Poet and Horseman (first published 2003; revised and updated 2019)*,
Remembering Comic Court (2018)
The High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine Story (2019),
Remembering Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870): An introduction to his poetical works (2020),
Bungala House: Historic country home in Yankalilla (2023).
Coming soon – Reef of Despair: The story of the SS Admella.
* Adam Lindsay Gordon was a trooper, horse-braker, steeplechase rider, politician, and poet. Especially, he had a unique understanding of a horse. His famous ‘Leap’ at Mount Gambier has never been equalled. Gordon was regarded as both a fearless man of action and a dreamer. Taken seriously as a poet only after his death, he is now lauded as ‘the Poet of Australia’ and honoured with a bust in Westminster Abbey.
Photo: Allan Childs, Lorraine Day and Marg Mueller at a book launch at the Penola Coonawarra Visitor Information Centre, Penola, in July 2019. The late Allan Childs was the former caretaker at Dingley Dell Cottage, Port MacDonnell.
Further information: www.freestylepublications.com.au
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