Kia ora, thanks to everyone who was at my session – it was lovely to see you there and thanks for buying the book.
I don’t know how the organisers do it but they go out of their way to make you feel that looking after you is a real pleasure and not only that, smile like they mean it. Thanks to Claire and Kathryn, you were great.
Vivienne Plumb was my interviewer and she was lovely – thank you Viv.
I am in awe of the organising skills necessary to get all these separate people from one place to another, and on time for the sound checks. It must take weeks to organise but it all went so smoothly like someone had simply waved a wand.
And thanks to all the writers who flew here, smiled, did a great job, smiled, spoke well, smiled – hope you’re all home soon and back to the usual routine of writing away on your own.
That’s the thing, really, most of us spend most of our time on out own in front of a computer. We emerge blinking into the light and are surprised when someone real is there smiling at us. We live so much of our time with fictional characters that relating to real life ones takes a moment before we click.
Then we talk about our lives, our writing and you smile – and you clap – what’s not to like?
Renée
