Another milestone.
Penfro 2013
Attended first book fair Penfro 2013 yesterday Sunday 15 September, quite an experience. Horrible weather so the regulars said less people than last year. However, met lots of interesting people - buyers, potential buyers, other writers, contributers for future books, publishers and book shops. Being a one book stand did not help in comparison with other trader's tables full of books.
On an awful journey down to Tenby heard Mungo Jerry Summertime and my foot started to tap. Found the You Tube version of three very hairy men in London Park Lane area many years ago. The song captures my mood well this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0
The fair next Saturday is shorter and being in Tenby should have a higher footfall ... yes I am learning the lingo of selling and marketing. A "black art" my first professional editor said when I told him I had published.
I took some second hand books to fill up my table and made some quick reviews on Amazon the 100th being for Ian Mcewan's Amsterdam. I have started the two books go for every one I buy. BODOT - Buy one dispose of two.
Could not go to a book fair and not buy. So six books to chairty!
"A wheel adventure." - Lone cyclist peddles across the world to Afghanistan, Nepal and India.
"Penfro Poets 2013" - A little wire bound book
"The Suspicians of Mr Whicher" on second reader book table. I heard the story on the wireless a few years ago.
Ywnwab!
Ywnwab! is now up on the York Publishing Services web site for purchase.
http://www.ypdbooks.com/short-stories/933-ywnwab-autumn-story-book-YPD00864.html
I am writing this watching Click on BBC2 and the progress of phone tablet and watch technology. Attending a book fair in remote Wales seems light years backwards.
Good reading and writing this week
Alexander
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