GREAT PUBLICATION DAY!
17 March 2011
How lovely to have my publication day of my latest novel Love and Marriage, on St Patrick's Day. It's been a day of huge celebration here in Ireland. Just what we need to dispel all the gloom and doom. The gods were kind and the sun shone all day and it felt really spring like as hundreds of thousands of people enjoyed festive parades all around the country.
Love and Marriage is the third part of the trilogy beginning with Forgive and Forget and then Happy Ever After. I really enjoyed writing the three books and felt the characters had become as close to me as family. It will be strange to start a new novel with a whole set of different characters.
It's been a terrific week. i signed 1000 books in The Bray bookshop on Monday morning, and yesterday my lovely agent, editor, publicist and sales manager from Transworld UK flew over to join all my Irish team here for a posh nosh up in Conrad Gallagher's new restaurant. We had the tasting menu and it was scrumptious. My house is like the Botanic Gardens from all the flowers I've received and it's such a nice time in an author's life when a new novel is published. Even after all the books I've written, the thrill never fades.
I begin a very busy book tour on Mon. and am looking forward to my stock signings in various bookshops around the country. Book-sales have been hit very badly in the recession and this is where libraries come into their own. it is so shocking for me as an ex library person to see how many libraries are being closed in the UK. It is beyond belief that such badly needed facilities can be cut, now more than ever it is so important that people have access to libraries. Thank goodness, despite all the economic havoc wreaked on us by greedy bankers and developers, our libraries aren't being decimated.
Thanks to all who wrote comments on the last blog and thanks to Sophie for explaining the e book situation. My agent tells me that an agreement has been reached and the books should be available as e books in the very near future, so Natalie I hope you'll be reading an e book of mine soon! Heather please give my regards to your mum and I hope she is much better, and Sue thanks so much for your lovely words, I'm always thrilled to hear from ppeople who enjoy my books.
So I hope you all enjoy Love and Marriage as much as I enjoyed writing it. I'm so grateful that after twenty-one years as a published author I still LOVE writing. How lucky am I?
Enjoy the spring. We deserve it after that cold harsh winter. Support your libraries and keep reading! xxx
1 comment
Written by Joan Turner on 28 December 2011 at 12:46:00
Does Patricia write under any other name i.e Marita Conlon-Mckenna