Photos from Newport

As you can see from this picture, Silence is now in the three-for-two promotion in Waterstone’s.

Newport was great, and I’ve left a batch of signed copies there so anyone who missed it can still pick one up.

Here I am at my signing table with borrowed pen – this was the last of three signings related to the Welsh Waterstone’s Book of the Month, but somehow I managed to forget to bring my own pen.

Blogger Me Sideways
My blog is now significant enough for other people to be blogging about it. Since blogging on the Guardian, several other bloggers have linked to that discussion.

This guy was good enough to post a link to his blog on the original discussion. He had been looking for something on author labels and my post fitted the bill.

The others I found via Google Alerts – very handy for finding out who’s talking about me, but only if you have a unique name! Every week I get a message from Google telling me all the latest pages that have been crawled which contain my name. Usually it’s something I’ve written or my publisher, Legend, but sometimes up pops something that I hadn’t known about. Here are some samples.

A Lesbian Author Speaks Out About Being Called A Lesbian Author - Cover to Cover blog
On pigeon holes - Bookninja blog

It’s official, I am a Journalist
Another google alerts popup was to find that since the Guardian blog, I am listed on a database of journalists. It was officially an article and I was paid for it, therefore it is my first piece of official paid journalism. Huzzah!

I have been writing articles for Velvet for the past few years, and I’ve been paid for the articles I’ve written for PlanetSappho, but as this is the first time I’ve written for a national newspaper, it makes me a journalist.