Allison Symes's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing-event"
An Author's Dilemma
There is one dilemma no author minds that much. This is where you go to a writing event and bring home as many or more books than you took of your own to sell!
I have done this again this year having just returned from The Writers’ Summer School, Swanwick.
Mind you, my trip this year has also enabled me to add to my growing collection of books signed for me by my author friends. Whenever I pass the shelves these books are on, I smile and recall where I first met the author. I like things like this.
Books are important for more than just the stories or interesting non-fiction between their covers, vital though they are. They can encourage positive memories.
For example, I still have The Readers’ Digest Collection of Fairytales. Both volumes were given to me by my late father. I loved looking at those books long before I could read them for myself. Wonderful illustrations and lovely memories to go with them.
Books, stories, memories - lovely things as a rule.
Incidentally, the only thing which did stop me from going completely overboard with how many books I brought back from Swanwick was knowing I was travelling by train and had to be able to put them in my suitcase! Sometimes you need the discipline of that!
I have done this again this year having just returned from The Writers’ Summer School, Swanwick.
Mind you, my trip this year has also enabled me to add to my growing collection of books signed for me by my author friends. Whenever I pass the shelves these books are on, I smile and recall where I first met the author. I like things like this.
Books are important for more than just the stories or interesting non-fiction between their covers, vital though they are. They can encourage positive memories.
For example, I still have The Readers’ Digest Collection of Fairytales. Both volumes were given to me by my late father. I loved looking at those books long before I could read them for myself. Wonderful illustrations and lovely memories to go with them.
Books, stories, memories - lovely things as a rule.
Incidentally, the only thing which did stop me from going completely overboard with how many books I brought back from Swanwick was knowing I was travelling by train and had to be able to put them in my suitcase! Sometimes you need the discipline of that!
