Book Signings without Books
Now there's a novel idea - no pun intended - but after travelling hours to speak to the Dorset Teaching Reading Conference it turns out that despite months of warning the booksellers - Borders - had not delivered my book for the signing sessions. Marks out of ten? You must be joking! Here I am pretending that I don't feel a right prat. Not really - more of a Zen moment.
My volunteer photographer did some snapping while I had a captive audience.
Not sure what I was saying here but it might have been 'I don't believe it!' Definitely wasn't 'Hallellujah!'
That aside I was greeted warmly and looked after by Lyn Gaudreau and her team. I had two workshops with an enthusiastic audience of teachers, librarians and volunteer reading helpers. Thank you all for being so friendly and laughing in the right places.
Here's a fine photograph of the back of my head as one of the delegates took pity and asked me to sign a poster for The Devil's Breath.
Anyway, the sun was shining, and I stopped on the way to the conference and had a walk on the Dorset cliffs. So it wasn't all downhill!
