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Digital Swaggie Publishing
Built on the premise that the best stories come from the characters you meet on the journey.
Digital Swaggie Publishing is an independent adventure-travel publishing house focused on long-form narrative works that document place, movement, and lived experience.
Its primary catalogue includes motorcycle travel memoirs that explore regional and remote Queensland, combining journey-based storytelling with cultural, historical, and geographic insights.
About Me
Author – Story Teller – Adventure writer and Public Speaker
My name is Gary Wood, and I’m an author, storyteller, travel and adventure writer and public speaker. I combine adventure, research, and applied communication to create work that informs, inspires, and engages. From exploring Queensland’s remote landscapes on motorcycle journeys to designing technical content and training solutions, my work bridges the gap between storytelling and practical clarity.
A Sense of Place series is a collection of short essays exploring regional Australian towns and landscapes through mood, history, and lived experience.
Instead of highlighting the obvious — where to eat, what to see, or how long to stay — these reflections focus on what gives a place its character and why it came to exist at all. They’re written to make you curious enough to visit, but leave plenty undiscovered when you arrive.
Each essay offers a starting point rather than a guidebook, providing context that deepens the experience of being there.
This reflection forms part of an ongoing Sense of Place series exploring regional Australia. Expanded versions of these stories are collected in my books.
