RACHEL HAMILTON’S COUNTDOWN TO LAUNCH – 2 WEEKS TO GO

Only a fortnight to go! I’m so over-excited I’m starting to look like the freaky Total-Recall-Lady. Luckily I still have a bit of hair left.

 

The coolest thing in the world happened this week when the ‘Worldofminifigs’ blog created a post called ‘Toilet Humour’ with a Lego-Me sitting on a Lego-Toilet reading a copy of ‘The Case of the Exploding Loo’. Life does not get more exciting than that!

 

 

 

 

. . . Although it came close when I got to hold my book for the first time. An advance copy arrived in the post and I have been patting and stroking it ever since.

 

 

 

I was nervous this week because three authors I admire were reading advance copies of my book and I didn’t know what they were going to say about it. Luckily they didn’t make me wait long and they came back with lovely comments that I’m obviously intending to plaster everywhere:

 

I know it’s a bit show-offy to share them in my blog (especially so enormously -  I’ve been struggling with formatting this week) but I’m so chuffed I couldn’t resist. And since I’ve started to show off, I’ll continue for a bit longer as I’ve learnt that my talk in the local library has sold out. No, it’s not a big library, but yes, I am very happy!

 

I got a glimpse of the poster for my launch event at Magrudy’s, which is lovely but says I won the Lit Fest competition in 2013. I didn’t, I came second and there’s nothing wrong with being runner up, just ask One Direction (no, that joke never gets old). I might have tried to claim the fake glory if the winner hadn’t been the very splendid Annabel Kantaria, who deserves all the prizes. When the wording is fixed, I’ll circulate it, and if you think you’ll be in the Jumeirah Beach Road area on Friday May 30th between 3 and 5pm please book yourself in because it’s another cosy venue and I’d like to claim I did a sell-out book tour . One Direction eat your handsome young hearts out!

 

 

And to demonstrate that this is the week I truly made it. I appeared on the minutes of my kids’ school parent rep meeting! Number 13 … unlucky for some, exciting for me. ‘In the Prep’ is a new phrase to me but I think it means ‘in Year 5 and 6′:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve been a bit quiet this week on Twitter and Facebook. This isn’t just because I’ve been hanging out at parent-teacher meetings. I’ve also been beavering away on Book Two, and less than three minutes ago I typed ‘THE END’. It will need tweaking and editing but my second book is now A THING. *Cue freaky Total-Recall-Lady face.*

 

 

A quick update on the virtual launch party. Barack Obama and Kermit have confirmed that they’ll be attending and I’m still waiting to hear back from David Beckham, so get here early or they’ll eat everything on the cyber-buffet.

 

 

 

 

Time for the weekly thank yous. ENORMOUS thank you to Ruth from Worldofminifigs for my favourite image of all time! To Tony, Liz and Jonathan for not only taking the time to read my book but also being so nice about it. To Max Dowler for being Max Dowler. To Tracy Donnelly for coming with me to get Exploding Loo t-shirts made for my junior Book Walrus helpers and for all her helpful thoughts on Book Two. Similar Book Two-ish love to Sue Harrison and a special mention for inspiring a jacket potato and NASA glove related ending. To Abi from Moontrug for making me laugh while we work on our blog tour post. To Eimear Singh who stopped me throttling people who didn’t deserve to be throttled and who has been my book-angel this week. To Lesley and Claire for being toilet-filming superstars. To my sister Kate and brother-in-law Rick for not being cross when my niece didn’t get a birthday present (#badaunt) and to my other sister Debbie for being much funnier than me. Finally, to a brilliantly enthusiastic man called Matt in a Grantham pizza restaurant for his extreme dedication to  buttoning down the details of my doughball buffet at the Lincolnshire launch event.

 

My ‘thing you can do if you’re feeling lovely’  this week is just to mention The Case of the Exploding Loo to your friends and help me spread the word. Perhaps by sharing facebook comments, retweeting tweets or just mentioning the book in conversation. Thank you in advance.

And that’s it until next week . . .

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