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Twitterati out in force for #getuptospeed book launch

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Keith Mansfield, David Allen Green, Mario Menti, Sally Bercow

Despite the freezing conditions, the Twitterati were out in force for the #getuptospeed book launch tweetup – thank you so much for coming! Those helping me celebrate the publication of my first book included friends from the worlds of publishing, politics and social media – some old friends, and some new friends who I've met on Twitter over the last year or so.

There was a Twitterwall, books to sign, Christmas decorations, mulled cider and fabulous friends. What more could you want?

My social life increasingly revolves around tweetups these days, and it was nice to see representatives from the London Book Trade Tweetups, Salon Intoxicante and #battertweet – a local tweetup in Battersea, South London.

Twitterati included political tweeter Sally Bercow, who I was delighted to meet at last – alongside her lawyer, fellow Salonista David Allen Green. David is otherwise known as the blogger Jack of Kent and is also the unofficial High Sherrif of Twitter: he's been defending Paul Chambers in the #twitterjoketrial this year.

Mario Menti was there, a fellow #battertweeter and inventor of Twitterfeed - a great free service that I recommend in the book, and have been recommending everywhere else for years. Other #battertweeters included Jack Bremer of 3B Digital and Isabel Losada – author of the The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenmentand a regular attendee of the London Book Trade Tweetups. Other author friends included Keith Mansfield, author of the Johnny Mackintoshtrilogy as well as being a publisher at OUP.

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Quote of the night: "It's a great place to live, but almost impossible to get a pizza delivered" @SallyBercow at #getuptospeed #booklaunch December 7, 2010 12:08 am via webKeithMansfield
Keith Mansfield

Other old publishing friends included Louise Bainbridge from my BPS days, Rich Homan from my time at Macmillan, and Suzanne Kavanagh, Jude Bowen and Nina Stibbe (all the way from Cornwall!) from the Routledge years. Randomly, Nina also knew Suzanne Collier and Anne Nolan who I've only known for the last year via my workshops and the book trade tweetups.

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Had a lovely evening at @JonReed's launch for #getuptospeed. Great to see @SuzanneCollier and @mafunyane and to meet @ninastibbe again.December 6, 2010 11:47 pm via webannemnolan
Anne Nolan

You know, it sometimes feels like everyone knows everyone else, somewhere in a Twittery social networking Venn diagram.

Those who came who are on Twitter can be found at @getuptospeed/booklaunch.

Here are a few iPhone snaps of the night. There are more in the Flickr group – and do contribute your own if you were there – especially if you took better ones than me! Anne Nolan also blipped one of me signing copies on the night.

Thanks again for making it a fun evening!

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Jon Slack, Louise Bainbridge, Steve Brown, Suzanne Collier

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Nina Stibbe, Suzanne Collier

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Suzanne Kavanagh, Anna Lewis, Nina Stibbe, Jon Slack, Anne Nolan

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Keith Mansfield, Anna Faherty

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Nina Stibbe, Alex Peachman, David Allen Green, Sally Bercow