Next week sees the launch event of one of our newest supporter group in Wales, the Cardiff Young Professionals. These intrepid fun seekers are holding a fundraising pub BBQ at the Y Mochyn Du in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff on Thursday 24th September.
This Saturday I got my first taste of spruiking. I always have books to sign and sell after giving a talk, but this was different; the real hard-core ‘roll up, roll up ladies pll-llease… I have cabbages, I have cherries, I have a new biography as featured on Women’s Hour…’ in the front of a Waterstones shop in Bury St Edmunds.
I am a very nosy person. What could be a more legitimate excuse for delving into the fascinating life, letters, unpublished novels, houses, bottom drawers, last will and testament… of someone who intrigues you, than writing their biography? Aware of the potentially invasive nature of the role, I once described it as psycho-stalking, and was duly ticked off by a more established writer.
As I drifted down Old Street in a state of confusion a snowball appeared to drop from the sky smacking my umbrella onto my head (don’t panic reader, I am ok). For a moment I thought the sky might be falling in, but then realised (due to peals of laughter) that the snowball was actually courtesy of some kids who were bombarding passers-by from the overhead vantage point of a flat’s balcony.
