I lived there for seven years and my last Middle Grade mystery "The Shiver Stone" is set on this coastline.
Tenby is a delightful, picturesque
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| Tenby Harbour |
Early on the gloriously sunny Saturday morning we met up with sixteen other authors and began setting up in the church hall. It was a
colourful affair - tables stacked with books from many different genres ensured
a variety of covers, posters and banners. Sci-Fi nudged shoulders with
Romance, Poetry cosied up to family sagas and thrillers nestled next to local
history.
From the minute the doors opened people flooded in. The warm
weather ensured that the town was bustling with tourists and locals and many of
them came to browse, buy books and engage with the authors.
Midway there were poetry readings and then Janet Thomas of
Firefly Press and I handed out prizes to the winners of the “my favourite book”
essay - a competition held in conjunction with local schools.
The event was professionally filmed by showboat tv –
and there’s a short video here if you fancy a peep: https://www.facebook.com/showboattv/videos/503015573209148
The Tenby Book Fair was a great success - it was buzzing and
busy and there was plenty of good-humoured camaraderie. I thoroughly enjoyed my day and I’ve already signed up
for next year.
7 comments:
Lovely post from children's writer, Sharon Tregenza, about the Tenby Book Fair (First event of the Tenby Arts Festival)It was the best yet! Onwards and upwards.
What a lovely day for both writers and readers! Congratulations on a successful book fair and am sure next year will be even bigger and better. Knowing that Shiver Stone is a great read and set locally, am sure it was snapped up!
Lovely post and lovely pictures!
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I love Tenby! We had several holidays there and the sun always shone. And the book fair sounds great. I'm sure it will continue to thrive.
What a lovely event and in such a special place. Will definitely add Tenby to my wish list of places to visit and Shiver Stone to my reading pile.
Sorry Sharon. Don't mean to post that as anonymous. I'm still waking up!
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