tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post1108910029938107641..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: On Book Launching - Debbie BennettKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-68354517218597355812013-12-09T16:48:17.533+00:002013-12-09T16:48:17.533+00:00Good for you, and so glad you did the reading! It&...Good for you, and so glad you did the reading! It's good to engage with readers in person, mostly because when they've come out to an event, they are usually really nice and supportive and as writers we're always a bit surprised by that! I usually find that the more people I know at an event, the more difficult it is. Strangers aren't so bad, but however supportive they are, (and they are!) people who know you are a bit daunting! Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-47012394909666324552013-12-08T11:18:27.013+00:002013-12-08T11:18:27.013+00:00Good for you Debbie! Glad it went well. As a poet ...Good for you Debbie! Glad it went well. As a poet I'm used to performing and normally do a string of gigs for each book. The first launch event is always fun but nervewracking. I've had several of mine at blackwells bookshop but one at a nightclub wbich was great fun. I often have my daughter singing too or some other entertainment besides me! Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-86824955621701816442013-12-07T13:03:16.493+00:002013-12-07T13:03:16.493+00:00So you were CALLING THE TUNE, n'est ce pas? Co...So you were CALLING THE TUNE, n'est ce pas? Congratulations<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-12224713827041280982013-12-06T15:37:28.678+00:002013-12-06T15:37:28.678+00:00It's amazing how much courage one can get from...It's amazing how much courage one can get from two large glasses of wine! So hard to do a reading though. I could see people from the corner of my eye, but didn't dare look up... next time, I shall stand in the middle of the room and "own" the scene a bit more. Make it less cosy and more in-your-face and listen-to-me! Next time...<br /><br />Next challenge is a literary festival!Debbie Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761474820689143835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-76872363806161967462013-12-06T14:06:39.605+00:002013-12-06T14:06:39.605+00:00Brilliant! Why don't you live closer! :-)Brilliant! Why don't you live closer! :-)<br />madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-13467632018780355512013-12-06T13:13:31.655+00:002013-12-06T13:13:31.655+00:00Well done, Debbie - you've set a great example...Well done, Debbie - you've set a great example for the rest of us.JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-79395488867920146342013-12-06T10:29:59.298+00:002013-12-06T10:29:59.298+00:00Lovely stuff, Debbie. If I'd known about it I ...Lovely stuff, Debbie. If I'd known about it I would have come - publicity, girl, publicity! And I still haven't reached you in my pile of books I have to read, so it would have forced me. Congrats, though, you brave person.<br /><br />Question for Kathleen, though. How often can you practise lying on the railway and waiting for a train to come along? I sense a flaw here.<br /><br />For Dennis - thanks for the lovely review of The Devil's Luck in Eclectic Electric. I haven't got my head round this newish resource yet because I'm snowed under. But I sure will soon. There's at least a couple of AE books I want to write about.Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-71105098851726924562013-12-06T10:19:37.931+00:002013-12-06T10:19:37.931+00:00Yes, Dennis!Yes, Dennis!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-81698934799217350822013-12-06T10:03:39.096+00:002013-12-06T10:03:39.096+00:00That sounds great, Debbie. In all my life I've...That sounds great, Debbie. In all my life I've only given one launch party. That was in 2008 for what has turned out to be the last novel I wrote for a mainstream publisher. Not that they paid a single penny towards the celebrations. A neighbour who owned a lovely flower shop lent it to me for the night, we laid in lots of wine on a cheap offer from Oddbins, Kay and my daughter-in-law did great nibbles and canapes which were served by grandchildren as waiters and we had over fifty people there. A fair number of books got sold. I gave a talk about the book and had a passage all marked out to read. But was it the wine, the excitement of the moment,or simple inbuilt absence of mind? I don't know. But afterwards I realised that I'd completely forgotten to read the extract of which I was so proud. Several times over the last five years I've wondered if it's worthwhile getting everybody back so they can get it read to them after all.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-36207343014599296112013-12-06T09:04:47.034+00:002013-12-06T09:04:47.034+00:00Good for you, Debbie!! Those sorts of events are ...Good for you, Debbie!! Those sorts of events are really scary and, like you, I have to have at least one glass of wine before I can face an audience. It's public exposure - I used to think it was like lying down naked on a railway line and waiting for the train to come along, but it gets a bit better with practise. <br />The launch looked great and glad you sold some books too! Good luck!Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-49477788128097429902013-12-06T08:39:40.809+00:002013-12-06T08:39:40.809+00:00Good for you!
I engage plenty -- too much, in fac...Good for you!<br /><br />I engage plenty -- too much, in fact -- with the real world; I just don't do it with readers. Well, not quite true: I am my own reader, and even if I had no other, I wouldn't think of myself as a nothing-writer (at lest most of the time).Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com