Words and Wonders

October 8, 2007

I had a small but very enthusiastic audience at Shugborough yesterday. I was a bit nervous as I was trying out a new talk with a (OMG) Powerpoint presentation that featured slides of me abseiling – from underneath! But everyone laughed in the right places so I guess it went well. 🙂

The talk boosted my feeble store of public speaking confidence and the event was also a great opportunity to meet other authors including the best selling writers, Annie Murray and Judy Astley and a very nice man from Ulverscroft who is going to publish a large print edition of Wish You Were Here. It’s a long story but I only crossed paths with Judy – I’m sorry I missed her.

Staffordshire Library service treated me like a ‘real author’ (I still don’t think of myself as one) and I got to see inside their lush new library van. It rocks (but not literally…)

This is NOT the van – this is the train I got to ride on!

Comments

1. On October 8th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
   liz Says:
   

   How did you miss Judy? Pleased it went well!

2. On October 9th, 2007 at 1:59 am
   Rosy Thornton Says:
   

   Your post reminds me of my favourite ever newspaper misprint – about a victorious home-coming cricket team being met at the airport by a ‘small but very enthusiastic crow’. (Tee hee.)

   Sorry.

   Glad it went well.

   Rosy x

3. On October 9th, 2007 at 3:43 am
   Phillipa Says:
   

   Liz – a long story but I did wave to her from the carriage of a land train…
   Rosy – your post had me rushing to the blog to see what I’d written.

4. On October 9th, 2007 at 4:46 am
   Nell Dixon Says:
   

   Wish I could have made it but I wasn’t up to driving that far. Glad it went ok.