All Quiet on the Book Signing Front?
Posted on Jun 03, 2009 under Juliet Archer's Diary |Unlike the hero of my next novel, Persuade Me, I actually look forward to book signings! I always meet lots of lovely people, often with their own story to tell.
In the last month, after my North-West tour, I’ve had just one signing event - at Borders, Watford. Another successful day - and unusual in that I met two people with Melissa Nathan connections and two authors! One was Conn Iggulden, who’s just launched The Dangerous Book of Heroes with his brother David, and the other was Mrs Ian Stewart, who helped to produce a book about her husband, cofounder and road manager of The Rolling Stones, known as ‘Stu’.
So, a very quiet month on the book signing front - mainly due to other events in my diary. These included a wonderful Jane Austen weekend with other C19 members (thank you, Mad Maggie and team!), where we visited Winchester and Chawton. We saw Chawton on a beautiful sunny day and I could see how The Great JA got so much writing done - all very inspiring.
Another event was the Romantic Novelists’ Association Summer Party. I didn’t win the Joan Hessayon Award - congratulations to Allie Spencer, whose book Tug of Love is out in October - but I had a great time. A particular highlight was having my photo taken with my publisher and Katie Fforde - deliberately, that is, rather than being accidentally included in the background! Unfortunately Dr David Hessayon was too unwell to attend - hope he’s feeling better.
I also met Trisha Ashley and Kate Harrison, who I’ll be seeing at the Café de Paris next week for the 2009 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance. Don’t worry, there’ll be even more name dropping when I post about that - just look at the list of judges!
