Adrian Magson and his wife Ann, who acts as driver/photographer/advertising-hoarding, were very welcome guests yesterday.
Adrian was there to promote the first book in the 'Inspector Lucas Rocco' series and promote it he did.
He handed out bookmarks and introduced himself to customers for about 5 hours non-stop.
We're just sorry that the weather ruined the first part of the day thus reducing the sales of
Death on the Marais.
Despite this, a good number were sold and customers received a £5.00 off voucher for the next in the series,
Death on the Rive Nord.
We still have a few signed copies of
Death on the Marais and, for a limited time, they will contain those £5.00 off vouchers.
Adrian also sold a fair few copies of his earlier spy novels,
Tracers and
Red Station.
He gave us the news on a new venture too. For some years Adrian has written articles for 'Writing Magazine' and has now developed these into a book called
Write On - The Writer's Help Book.
Write On contains advice for beginners on the complete writing/publishing process from 'Where do I start?' to 'How do I submit my manuscript?'.
It's published soon and we will have it in stock.
As well as all this sales and publicity, this lovely couple brought French wine and biscuits to go with the atmosphere of the book. Perhaps the photo shows the result. Tony has an empty glass and David is half asleep.
Adrian, Ann, thanks for a great day!
Finally, here's the castle where it was always intended to go.
Look, I know we have more dogs on our blog than books but we just love dogs, OK!
The big sellers at Cotswold Bookstore are very different.
We have a lot of dog friends who run into the shop for a biscuit but this little lady is the only one to have her own transport.
Nina and Marilyn are on duty this morning so why was David upstairs printing French flags and why was Tony tarting up the window?
The latest 'Booktime' magazine has arrived and I was very pleased to see THREE positive reviews in it for The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield.
This is another Meg.
Who better than Jonathan Agnew to write 'An affectionate tribute to a broadcasting legend', meaning, of course, Brian Johnston. Thanks, Johnners is much more than a simple recounting of all the gaffes (deliberate or otherwise) and practical jokes that originated with the much loved Johnners. (I was amazed to read that the 'Leg over' incident took place not long after Johnners and Aggers started working together!) The Daily Telegraph view, 'So good that I felt as if I was listening to Test Match Special' says it all. This delightful book, (if you are not a cricket lover, this might convert you) is now in paperback at £8.99
