OUR first full day in Harrogate saw Michelle train it for Waterstones in York for an evening with Clare Mackintosh. She is an author and her latest is ‘The Last Party’ – another crime novel, of course, as we are all here for Theakeston Old Peculier Crime Writers Festival and all ‘thewhodunnits’ in the world.
Michelle came back with free gifts including a book! A free proof copy by Katy Watson entitled ‘The Three Dahlias’ published by Constable. It is published today and we can see what, if any changes, have been made. It is appropriate as at The Aldermere House Convention guests are made aware by the notice ‘Welcome you all to a weekend of mystery and murder’. Pages of diagrams of the house with a garden layout included. Could it be as good as the ‘Authors Murder Mystery Dinner’ this weekend in The Old Swan. I can let you know as as we are all going on Friday evening.
This morning a gift bag for my acquisition of ‘All About Me’ with a short poem inside in the style of the verses inside by John Drinkwater for our great-nieces. They are into books already.
Then to the new location for Harrogate’s Independent Bookshop at 21 Montpellier Parade Harrogate HG1 2TG. That’s Imagined Things where real things can be bought. And books were collected having been preordered. We always try and support the independents.
Notes From A Writer 