Held in one of Bury St Edmund’s most impressive buildings, the Unitarian Meeting House in Churchgate Street, it was a pleasure to attend and indeed feature in the Literature Festival on the 27th October 2019. It was a first for me to be talking with a backdrop of a sweeping wooden staircase circling up to a substantial wooden pulpit! It was very atmospheric with the light streaming in through the tall windows and Waterstones there with a table of festival authors’ books.
We had a wonderful audience with plenty of interest and questions, as Jackie, Rachel and I talked about our independent approaches to publishing and our various experiences. Our different genres lend themselves to contrasting methods of reaching our audiences, for example – Rachel writes post apocalyptic adventure for Young Adults, Jackie writes literary fiction as well as being a playwright, and I write contemporary crime novels set in Suffolk. That’s quite a mix of styles, and led to a lively talk about ebooks, paperbacks, audiobooks and the stage. We could have talked for far longer than our allocated time – it always feels good when you leave an audience wanting more!
I’m delighted to be taking part in the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival when it returns to the town this October with a whole host of exciting events, talks and discussions on literature, publishing and the like.
I’ll be ‘in conversation’ with award-winning local playwright and novelist, Jackie Carreira, (her new novel, The Seventh Train, was released in April 2019) about the highs and lows of independent publishing – sharing our experiences and offering our tips on how to avoid the common pitfalls of the process.
Details:
Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival 25th – 27th October 2019
Jackie Carreira in conversation with Pauline Manders
Venue: Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1RH
Start: 10:30 am
Tickets: £2.00, concessions free. Click here to buy tickets
Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
- Sometimes a dog just can’t keep up!
Pauline will be in Waterstones in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 5th August from 10am book signing. Utterly Crushed is the latest (6th) in the Utterly Crime series of novels. The action moves across East Anglia from Stowmarket and Diss to Aldeburgh and Orford Ness; Bury St Edmunds to Grundisburgh and Ipswich. Pauline however will be in Waterstones in Bury St Edmunds book signing!!
Take a look at the cover – the artist / designer Rebecca Moss Guyver has recently won a New English Scholarship awarded annually by the New English Arts Club to two emerging artists with the most promising portfolios. Rebecca is currently exhibiting some of her work in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
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Guess where I will be on Saturday 6th August 2016
It is not difficult to guess where I will be from 10:30 am.
Waterstones.
My four legged friend holds the answer, although he
is utterly confused because he thinks the
notice reads Water bones.
I am looking forward to book signing my Utterly Crime Novels and the ‘meet the
author’ event, featuring all the novels in my Utterly Crime Series, set in Suffolk.
See you there!
This is Alpha Zulu, a Piper Arrow with Attitude….
I am really excited about the Felixstowe Book Festival later this month. I shall be there, alongside fellow authors Rosy Thornton and Mary Powles, and we shall be talking about our novels and how Suffolk has influenced or lent itself to our different genres and writing styles.
Set in Suffolk – (Sunday 26th June at 1:30pm.)
Find out more about us, the festival and ‘Set in Suffolk’.
Felixstowe Book Festival, 2016
I hitched a flight to take some promotional photos in an attempt to inspire readers to visit Felixstowe and the Book Festival.
Alpha Zulu coming in to land with… not a lot of Altitude. (I was on board!)
This an Aerial Shot of Felixstowe through the cockpit….
I hope you can understand why I shall be describing how The Utterly Crime Series has been inspired by, and infused with ‘Suffolk’.
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