The highs and the lows of a modern troubadour

Part One

One of the great excitements for any writer is the day they receive a box of books from their publisher. Nothing can compare to the smell of cut cardboard revealing stack upon stack of your dreamed-up creation staring up at you from within its hallowed container. But where are the queues of admiring fans? Is the phone hopping like a rabbit in a strawberry patch? The truth and for me at least delightful reality is that this is when your marketing journey begins. Breaking out of the comfort zone of my writing armchair becomes imperative. To that end, this past week has seen me hop aboard a bus and visit three different places to read from and to leave my book in independent bookshops and in the more traditional retailers. I visited London/Derry, Bundoran, and Sligo.  In the divided city that London/Derry is I read in the City library, and that evening I read in the Waterside Theatre on the last evening of that venerable establishment's existence due to funding issues But what did the audiences in those three places think?  ( To be continued...)

 

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