At the end of day three at Earls Court, here are some things that stand out for me:
- Meeting lovely people I know only from social media, and finding them even better in real life
- The lure of bacon sarnies first thing in the morning
- Standing room only at seminars in Author HQ
- Finding out what ‘domestic chillers’ are (hint: Zanussi doesn’t make them)
- The rallying cry to indie authors (and the brand new ALLi badge)
- Terry Pratchett on video loop
- Aching shoulders from accumulated bumf
- Some cringe-making questions from the audience (“How does one start to write a book?”) and Katie Fforde’s incredibly courteous reply
- An awesome open mic session at the indie fringe fest
- Agents emerging blinking in the light after days spent holed up in the International Rights Centre
- Pizza with not enough pepperoni (Pizza Express, please look up ‘loaded’ in the dictionary)
- It’s not just my London Book Fair. It’s also my London, so here I am standing with my book in front of the house where I was conceived.
34 Trebovir Road SW5
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