All over the house revenge of the ironing board

I just love this comic! There's something about the script that Zoë and I came up with that pushes the ol' snort-coffee-through-nose laugh-o-matic button.

All over the house

All aboard the book signing express!

Waterstones at Bolton have confirmed dates as November the 13th. Being a little closer to Christmas, they are expecting beusiness to be quite brisk, so this is a good opportunity for me. I think there is another event on at the same time, but that will be, as I understand it, a children's book event.

Being within walking distance of Jenny towers, I'm looking forward to this one. It's running from around 11:00am through until 4:00pm, though as at Darlington I will start early if I get there early, and will keep going until people numbers thin out. I have no idea how many books to expect to shift. Tentatively I'm told the manager has been told to order an extra ten copies. I will, of course, take a box of books with me just in case as I found out at Darlington this can be invaluable when deliveries get delayed.

In other news, google-fu reveals that there appears to be an impact to the PR work. There's a ton of listings giving details about the book and signing events. Hopefully soon to join them are some features being run by a number of local papers. Momentum is building!

Bolton signing

Bolton Waterstones wants to book me for a signing event. Success breeds success? Dates to be confirmed.

After the event.

Today went really well! I think Michael Macintyre (who was doing a signing up the road in Newcastle) might have just beaten me on shifting paper, but I did all right.

One thing is for certain - it's tiring work signing books, smiling and chatting to the public. I think I did all right though :)

T-1

I'm in Durham, all ready for the signing at Waterstones in Darlington tomorrow. Today I was interviewed by a newspaper for a feature to be run in a couple of weeks time, and have discussed with Waterstones in Durham for arranging another signing in November.

One small snag is that I received an email today that supply of our books has been held up somewhere. It's a good job I have a case of 44 in the boot of my car! Well, I'm always well prepared.

Press release for signing

The word is out there. Articles are starting to turn up advertising the imminant start (?) of the signing tour.

clicky link here

Back in stock for under a fiver.

'Bringing Home the Stars' is back in stock at the Book Depository. They are currently offering it at under a fiver! I can't say cheaper than that.