Hat Trick for October - Jan Edwards
Three things to celebrate this month
Firstly the pARTyLines Literary Caberet on Tues 8th Oct at The Old Joint Stock
Pub & Theatre. This was organised
by Writing West Midlands as part of the Birmingham Literary Festival.
The range of performances was tremendous and depth from
performance poetry to prose and songs
You will notice I am not in the
photo…
There is a reason for that. Those who know me well may recall
that this is the third occasion when I have been called upon for curtain calls and
the cry of ‘she’s in the bar’ has gone up. Its becoming something of a habit!
It sounds bad – but hand on heart I had one drink all evening and happened to be
at the bar buying it at that very moment. In my defence if the nerve wobbling act of reading to a full house
(standing room only) and little old me being sandwiched in the running order between two
professional actors didn’t earn me a large G&T I don’t know what would. But
hey – no big deal – I was there and had a
wonderful time.
The drive home was... interesting. M6, M6 Toll and M42 all closed at
crucial junctions with next to no signage, which doubled our one hour journey time… Midlands people will recognise my
pain but I shan’t bore the rest of you with the gory details.
The second event was the annual Ghosts
at the Gladstone evening at the Gladstone Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. This is (I
think) the fifth GATG that we have taken part in, and possibly the most successful to date. Another
full house (we had to put out more chairs) and a fabulous array of spooky
readings. A bit of an IT glitch when the antiquated *sound and vision* at the
Museum refused to play nicely with the fabulous graphics that had been prepared - but we coped. (I am in this picture (above) but then the Gladstone doesn't have a bar.)
In passing – if you have not been
to the Gladstone it is worth a look. Finest historic collection of porcelain
toilets you will find anywhere in the world!
The third event may not have
quite the same news value to the world at large, but I have been celebrating the
first draft of my next crime book with extreme vigour!
This had been an odd year,
following on from an odd year before that, and coaxing this book to its
conclusion has been felt positively Sisyphean
at times and there was more than one occasion when I wondered if it would ever get written at all! But its done - first draft in the bag!
Okay - I have the rewrites to plough
through, and that is a fresh hell in its own right, but Listed Dead : Bunch Courtney Investigation
#3 now exists and on course for launch next spring. I shall now go and lie down in a
darkened room for a bit…
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