Thank you Waterstones Hastings for hosting me & Graham Bartlett 🇺🇦🇺🇦 last night - and to Sheila Bugler for the great interview!
Lovely audience & actually sold a fair few books. Go Hastings! ❤️ 📚

So happy that the first #BeyondtheBookFestival was a huge success. Every panel was full of engaged readers who didn’t hold back on the questions & applause. Thank you to our sponsors, our guests, our brilliant audience & our awesome volunteers. ♥️ A short video of the day. 👇👇

Tonight - Hastings…
Tomorrow - the world!
Mwah ha haaaa

Ps: please come see me & Graham Bartlett 🇺🇦🇺🇦 & buy a book 🙏 😬

Another day, another podcast - zoom light at the ready, brain (just about) functioning!

Looking forward to this on Friday!

I had SO MUCH FUN talking to RedHotChilliWriters Vaseem Khan Abir Mukherjee about ORIGINAL SINS
We even invented a new sport - which involves putting whippets down your trousers. 🤷🏼‍♀️
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/red…

What a lovely, thoughtful write-up of our festival. Thank you Karen Cole ❤️
Great to hear how much it was enjoyed. Can’t wait to start planning next year!

On to the next event! Wednesday in Hastings with Graham Bartlett 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @sheilab10

What a day!
Am exhausted but over the moon at what we achieved Beyond the Book Festival
85 tickets sold. An engaged & lovely audience. Wonderful to see the panels we imagined come to life with such super authors. Thank you so much to our amazing volunteers & sponsors ❤️ Roll on next year

We made it! Beyond the Book Festival
Our final but absolutely brilliant event - the hilarious Kathy Lette interviewed by local legend Jo Furniss
We’ve giggled so much we all now need a big glass of 🥂

The brilliant John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 reading from his latest poetry collection Beyond the Book Festival
We’re all captivated including Belle 🐕

Loved moderating this talk on the publishing industry! We could have talked for hours - thank you to our wonderful panel ❤️

Catching Predatory Killers at #beyondthebookfestival #TrueCrime #bookfestivals #brighton

We’re off & running! Beyond the Book Festival
A full house & so much buzz.
Absolutely fascinating panel on women’s fiction post #MeToo (talking about how we’re not post at all) with Araminta Hall Eva Carter aka Kate Harrison/Helm: 3 authors in 1! Julie (Mae) Cohen DOROTHY KOOMSON | Bestselling Author

My (thankfully) only earthquake experience was a 5.9 - we were sleeping in a villa on stilts on a cliff & I woke to the whole structure shuddering violently. The bf woke up long enough to declare it was the air-con then went back to sleep (he also slept through the 87 hurricane)

Huge thank you to the fabulous MBI Sound & Light Brighton for their incredibly generous use of a sound system for our festival tomorrow 🙏 Beyond the Book Festival
mbisoundandlight.co.uk

I had ridiculous (seriously ridiculous) fun talking to the incomparable Abir Mukherjee & Vaseem Khan last night for their podcast. Laugh? I nearly died!
It’s out next week but before then - do yourselves a favour & catch this double-trouble act here: open.spotify.com/show/5wpEYOn0J…

So great to have Jo joining us at Beyond the Book tomorrow!

We still have a few tickets left with an incredible line up for the day & afterparty at the fabulous Goldsboro Books

But hurry - we’re almost full (amazing for our first festival!) 🎉

beyondthebookfestival.org/tickets

Road trip!!
Great afternoon for the Brighton Crime Collective at Cranleigh Arts with S J Watson David Fennell Graham Bartlett 🇺🇦🇺🇦 - lovely audience.
And look at Graham’s amazing merch!!!

Great to be invited back to Radio Iowa last month!
radioiowa.com/2024/02/14/bes…