Food for thought at the Festival Of Romance by Hywela Lyn
The second Festival of Romance was held on the weekend of the 15th - 18th November in Bedford, a new venue this year, and a slightly different programme. The Book Fair is meant to promote the romance genre, and most of the authors present publish in both paperback and eFormat. I stayed at the Park Hotel, overlooking the River Ouse, and shared a room with Sarah Tranter, whose debut novel 'No Such Thing As Immortality' has just been published in E-format as well as paperback. It's always a delight to meet up with authors whom one has previously only met on-line, although we had met briefly the previous year. I did not attend the ball on the Friday night, although I hear a great evening was had by those who did. Most of the events took place on the Saturday, including a book fair in the corn Exchange.The place was humming with authors busy laying out their tables and it was great to see famliar as well as new face...