61 lbs! Woo Hoo!!
Another good day at the Crime Writers Festival. I went to 2 sessions today; 1 at noon called "New Blood", moderated by Val McDermot and featuring 4 new authors and the other this evening at 8:30, an interview of Harlan Coben by Laura Lippman. Both were really good!
The "New Blood" panel featured Elizabeth Haynes (Into The Darkest Corner), David Mark (The Dark Winter), Oliver Harris (The Hollow Man) and Kate Rhodes (Crossbones Yard). I was able to get books by all of them except David Mark--they sold all his books early on--which turned out to be the one I would have liked to get most. All 4 sound really interesting, but David Mark's book is set in Hull, so it's close to home. He's a journalist over in Hull and he seemed to be the most interesting of the 4, although they were really were all good. He made a comment about all journalists wanting to be novelists, 'which explains why there is so much creative writing' in the news today :-) Ain't that the truth!?
Harlan Coben and Laura Lippman were both good, too. It was a bit weird hearinng so much 'America' after this much time in England. He's an author I've been meaning to start reading for awhile now, so I picked up one of his books. I'm also going to take a look at what Laura Lippman has written, too.
I'm just staying up long enough to get the last load of laundry in the dryer and then I'm off to bed so I can get an early start for South Devon in the morning. I'll have to keep reminding myself to stay out of the Devonshire Cream Teas ;-) Torture!
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