Launch Fallout

Photos of the Launch!
I have at last got through all the photos, selected the best and uploaded to my website. See the new Silence Gallery for all of them.
I plan to take photos of the book on display and me signing etc. at the other Waterstone’s stores I travel to over August – Swansea, Aberystwyth and [...]

Slightly Hung Over Famous Person

Book launch last night was amazing. There was a huge crowd of people and we sold 20+ books. I held off the cava until after my speech but had a glass right at the end when I was mingling. Then remembered that I hadn’t actually eaten yesterday apart from a pancake for breakfast. Batteries went [...]

Everyone Wants a Piece of Me!

This week will be the last time I can refer to myself as an unpublished novelist. Yes, there are only five days to go till Silence is on the shelves at Waterstone’s! I can barely contain myself. I haven’t blogged for a week not because there’s nothing to say but because too much has happened. [...]

Announcing Waterstone’s Welsh Book of the Month…

…You guessed it! Silence is Waterstone’s Welsh Book of the Month for August. This will involve some front of house promotion in all Waterstone’s stores in Wales. There’s the lovely Cardiff branch of course, and I’ve also discovered that Newport, Aberystwyth, Abergavenny, Carmarthen, Wrexham and Llandudno have a branch of Waterstone’s, and Swansea has two. [...]

The Book in my Hands!

Even though my legs are dropping off from walking along the parade at London Pride yesterday, I’m still ecstatic that I’ve got my book at last. I picked it up yesterday lunchtime when I met Tom for the Speakers’ Corner event (which I videoed and will be podcasting as soon as I have it edited). [...]

The Book Has Landed!

Latest correspondence with Lucy at Legend found me leaping around the room doing a little war dance. MY BOOK IS PRINTED AND AT THE OFFICE. Wh-hoo!! Review copies of Silence have gone out and more are due. Official publication date is still three weeks away, so you grubby lot won’t get hold of it yet [...]