Wetherspoons Book Group!
My local Wetherspoons asked me to be their ‘guest local author’ at their very first Book Group! They offered free tea and coffee to all who attended and even handed round choccie biccies… yum yum!
It all went OK. We went round saying what book we were reading at the moment and what we thought of it. I just about managed to answer questions about Dear Bob (1st novel)… it was 6 years ago it was published, so had a quick skim through it before I left the house to refresh my memory! One man had written a novel and wanted advice about how to go about getting it published; it was nice to feel useful!
An old school friend of mine saw my message about the event on facebook and decided to come… we hadn’t seen each other in 19 years, so that was fab.
Dear Bob was distributed to all present, the plan being that they read it before next month’s group, then come back and discuss it. I said they were welcome to say anything negative about it they wanted, as long as they bought me a large glass of white wine first, so I could drown my sorrows. Hope no one thought I was joking!
It was well-advertised in the local press
And a good follow-up piece here
and here
October 19th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Oh well done Annie! Does that mean you’ll be hosting it every month? Hope you don’t get too many glasses of wine (or do I? mmmm, catch 22 that.)
Fiona
October 19th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
thanks Fi.
no, i won’t be hosting it every month… it’s their book group not mine
(which is good as I haven’t the time!) but i’ll go next month to hear
what they say re dearbob!
i don’t mind what they say, as long as i get that wine…!
October 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am
That’s the spirit! (Liquid, not Holy).
October 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I often find a combination of both sorts does me just fine… but don’t tell anyone!
October 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 am
Thanks for sharing