Some more events
and a little update!
Hi everyone! I have a few events to tell you about and after that I’ll have a brief waffle about how I’m managing social events as a massive introvert.
On the 11th and 15th May I will be talking about Victorian asylums at Nottingham Central library.
On the 21st May I’ll be chatting about Spider, Spider with Dormouse Books at Belper Library.
On the 23rd July I’m taking part in the legendary Theakston Crime Festival on a panel about writing and working during their Creative Thursday event.
The last event on that list is huge for a debut writer - the Theakston Crime Festival is massive and I’ve been so lucky to get on a panel. It’s also utterly terrifying. Not the panel itself weirdly, I’m feeling pretty chill about that. After all, it’s just a friendly chat with some other writers chaired by someone whose actual job it is to keep the conversation moving. No, the really scary stuff is everything around it.
I attended the launch party for the programme and bumbled around being socially inept, not recognising people and being embarrassingly relieved when I did know someone. That’s the stuff that’s scary - meeting people I really want to make a good (or at least, not bad) impression on, some of whom are my actually writing icons, acting like I fit in and am not a just a small pink ghost who is pretending to be a writer.
There isn’t time to totally rearrange my mental landscape between now and July, unfortunately! I’ll just have to grit my teeth and try not to scream when I make an idiot of myself. Does anyone else feel like this in these scenarios?
Feel like that? In brief, yes. In long, yessssssssssssssssssssssssss!