Book Launch

The book launch event on 24th November went fantastically well.  The Oasis Centre began to fill up well in advance of the start time of 6 pm, and there was a buzz in the building as more than 50 people began to congregate.  I was feeling slightly apprehensive, and the nerves began to build as the time for the interview approached.  I was lucky that Heather (who had helped me with a lot of the editing) was around to steady my nerves!  Just one of the other wonderful things about the evening was that Helen (who lives and works in Argentina most of the year) was over in the UK and managed to get up to Boston Spa for the evening - Helen helped with some of the initial editing and gave some very helpful advice from her past experience as an editor.

The interview will be posted on the Oasis website next week, as well as on YouTube, so if you didn't manage to get to either event (as there is a Meet the Author event on 1st December) you will be able to watch it!

I will put more thoughts about the events onto here a little later....

On the countdown now

Well, I have boxes of books at home now ready to take to the launch next week.  All the preparations have been done that possibly can be done, all I have to do is turn up on the night and enjoy the evening!  Hmm, well that may be the case, but in reality I think I will be spending the six days and nights before 24th November agitating in case I have forgotten anything, worrying that there will be a snow blizzard and no one will be able to get there.  And more and more I am sure!  There is a level of confidence around me that everything is going to work perfectly, there will be no malfunctions of the video camera, etc etc.

I think my best approach is to go with the confidence......

Picking up the books on Wednesday had a certain poignancy for us, as it was the anniversary of the day Abi died in 1984.  I have written before about circles coming together and ends being tied up.  It felt very like that for us, having all those books in the car, the celebration of her life and what she meant to all of us.