Oxford Blue Launch Party

December 14, 2014

The Oxford Blue series ready to go

“There’s a greatness to your lateness, Pippa…”

You know when you’ve planned an important one-off Book Launch to the last detail? When you think you have everything under control and a contingency plan? When you’ve fretted for weeks that people won’t turn up?

The one thing you haven’t factored in is that YOU might not turn up!

Well, THAT.

The Launch Party for the Oxford Blues series was last Tuesday – the reason I haven’t blogged about it is because we headed off to Bruges immediately afterwards for some R&R.

The launch party was held at the fabulous Goldsboro Books in Covent Garden. This famous bookstore specialises in signed first editions, including some by Agatha Christie, JK Rowling and Daphne Du Maurier. To have my launch in that setting was beyond all my expectations.

Penguin Books supported the event – hurrah – and Alex Clarke and Katie Sheldrake came along to celebrate with me. Thanks to them for waiting while I made my – um – fashionably late entrance!!! Thank goodness, Alex is gracious and generously made a joke of my arrival (see above.)

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With the lovely Alex from Penguin.

Now, I am a self-confessed control freak. I turn in books early and usually, I’m too early for things but for the biggest night of my career? Due to a motorway Armageddon, I managed to be 45 minutes late to my own launch 🙁

But I’m not going to dwell on that now, just post some pictures and thank everyone who made the effort to come and celebrate the launch and my 10 years as a writer. Big hugs go to my family, to my college and C19 friends, to my RNA author buddies and fabulous book bloggers including Kim Nash, Sophie from Reviewed the Book, Best Chick Lit and Ann’s Book Corner.