Arsenic for Tea – Out and About in Cambridge

Today is the first day of Arsenic for Tea’s month as Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. For all of February, the front page of Waterstones.com looks like this:

Which is pretty knock-out amazing, if you ask me.

I’ve written a blog for Waterstones about why I write mystery novels for children, and another for Girls Heart Books thanking Waterstones booksellers for getting behind the books – I seriously am so grateful to them for how enthusiastic they’ve been.

Today I went out in Cambridge to get my first proper sightings of the book in the wild, and see if I could see any displays – and I certainly did. I was expecting some tables, maybe a wall display . . . and then what I saw was THIS:

I mean. Really. That is the most BEAUTIFUL THING I have ever seen.

Inside was pretty amazing too – several tables, lots of advertisements for my launch next weekend (3pm, Cambridge Waterstones Children’s department!) and even a lovely wall display next to some Harry Potter books(!).

Then (once I had recovered from all that) I went over to Heffers, where the book is also beautifully featured on LOTS of tables. And on a 3 for 2 offer, no less!

The lovely Heffers booksellers even let me sign some copies – so, Cambridge people, get over there for your signed books NOW!

All in all, an incredibly exciting and successful book-hunting afternoon. I (and my boyfriend, helpful documenter of all of the above) definitely deserved a Fitzbillies bunbreak at the end of it.