All The Fun of the Book Fair

I was thrilled to take part in a Book Fair local to me last weekend. It was the first one in the venue chosen (and the venue was excellent).

It was fantastic to see a wide range of authors covering so many different tastes in books and age ranges too.

Non-fiction (travel journeys) was well represented too.

The organisers counted well over 100 people in attendance and there was a constant footfall flow all afternoon. This is highly encouraging. There is hope this event will become an annual one. For obvious reasons, I hope it does too.

But I also saw it as encouraging that people still love books. They want to see what their local authors are coming out with.

If you have an event like this coming up near you, do go if you can. You may well be pleasantly surprised at the wealth of reading material on offer. I was - and I was taking part!

Also great to see these events back again. The last one I took part in was before the pandemic - that seems like a world away now - though I have run workshops, gone to conferences etc since. Good to see the book fairs back too now!

This was something I was especially pleased about as our bookshops are now several miles away so having the books come to the locality will always be a fantastic idea.