Having spent half of each of the two previous weeks in Essex and becoming best friends with the guys from EasyJet, my gypsy lifestyle will continue this weekend with a fully paid-up author's pass to The Wigtown Book Festival.
I am appearing at the Festival together with the author Vivien Jones, and we have the audience-friendly slot of 10.30 am this Saturday. Our venue is The Bookshop Garden Marquee.Vivien is launching her book of short stories "Perfect 10", and I will be reading from "The Fat Plant". Details of Vivien's book are here: http://bassviol.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-first-collection.html
I've read it; it's a cracker.
Our author perks include a goodie bag (ooh), complimentary pass to attend other events (aahhh) and entry to the Writers Retreat, the place of refreshments all day (yahoo!).
Although Roddy Doyle is appearing on the Saturday, my girlish eye has been foolishly drawn to the appearance of Angus Konstam, author of "There Was a Soldier". Described as "a formal naval officer and underwater archaelogist, Angus Konstam is as colourful as the pirates, battles and ghost ships he chronicles". I am hoping for a wooden leg and eye-patch at least. And I want to be swash-buckled.
Then on Wednesday, the 30th of September I will be appearing as part of the ensemble, Crichton Writers. We are presenting a performance piece "Words and Bronze" in the Old Bank Bookshop at 3.30pm. This is the work written in celebration of the sculptor Elizabeth Waugh. The "artefact poems" we created will also be on display, together with some of Elizabeth's bronzes.
So having been fitting 5 days work into 2 days for the past two weeks as well as fretting about leaving my husband and children to manage without me (and don't we all think we're indispensable) as well as fretting about my brother and mother, I am going to take my camera on Saturday and simply enjoy a Book Festival, and try and capture a little bit of it in pictures. Which I'll probably bore you with.
Patient update: he's back in ITU, still at the Royal London, and being kept sedated for a little while.
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