I’m going to be talking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, on Wednesday 25th August. I’ll be sharing the stage with Keith Charters, managing director of Strident Publishing, and we’ll be discussing how writers can make the most of the publishing opportunities open to them. We’ll be discussing such delights as rights reversions, self publishing, and building promotional platforms, all without the aid of a safety net. I can’t get a reliable link direct to my event so you’ll have to go to the Festival’s home page which I’ve linked to above, click on the “What’s On” tab, and search for me by name–Jane Smith.
This will be your only chance to come and heckle me, as I am taking part in just this one event: unlike our favourite crabbit old bat, Nicola Morgan, who has nabbed herself three sessions in the spotlight.
Nicola has promised to come along and lead the heckling, so it promises to be a lively event with some serious footwear on show. Tickets don’t go on sale until Saturday so you have plenty of time to browse the programme of events before you buy your tickets. I look forward to meeting some of you there: do come up and say hello!
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I soooo wish Edinburgh wasn’t so far away. I would love to come and heckle. Sorry, I mean ‘make a reasoned contribution to the debate’.
I regard it as my duty to be there to heckle and to laugh at your shoes, Jane. I will be in the Yurt with you beforehand, to make sure you have lots of coffee and cakes to keep your energy levels high, and very possibly afterwards to guide you towards a glass of wine.
I know Keith Charters well, and I also know who’s chairing you. It will be a great event!
Helen, I’m sure that anything you have to say would be a reasoned contribution, no matter what form it took!
And Morgan: I am glad for your support (I think). If it goes well I will have you to thank. It’s a shame you couldn’t chair the talk: the Morgan And Smith Show would have been a lot of fun. If it went well we could have gone on tour. But we’d need new shoes every night and only our husbands would come to see us, so we would probably have lost a lot of money.
I would dearly love to come and see all the footwear on display, but shall be cheering you on from afar. I had to reread several times before I realised that didn’t say Keith Chegwin!
Should be fun, I’ll be there and may just join you in the yurt beforehand…and after!