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Book Events as an Introvert

I hope you're well. That's the thing about May.That's the thing about early June is it's the it's one of the best times of year and I say that as a bookish person because I know all my reader friends and my wrider friends, we like autumn or as I think they say in America, the fall, that's the best, clearly, that's the best time of year. That's that's Halloween. It's horror. It's creepy, it's dark, it's cold, it's you start having way more time for some reason to like just crawl into a place a nest and read, you know, and not have to like interact with the world and other humans. So that's clearly the best time of year. And you might like Christmas or Hanukkah, you might like like Easter. Does anyone like that, but May/June, it's a great time of year. It's not too hot and summer is still a novelty. Summer, end of July beginning of August, get out of here. For me in the forest, summer in August is just massive mosquitoes, thunderstorms, heat, uh, like I feel like I'm cutting my grass twice a day. It's just obscene. Whereas May June, everything's light green. The mosquitoes are small. It’s not wet. It's not humid. It's light and breezy. It's a good time of year. It's a great time of year and for me it's the start of the hardcore period of book festivals so I've just done Montreal, which was fantastic and then I've got a couple of weeks to like work on deadlines before I have capital crime in London, which is always brilliant, super well organized. Then I'm flying directly from London to New York, JFK, where I'll be doing thriller Fest and I've never done thriller Fest before. I'm slightly intimidated just because you know what it's like if you're not American, you fly into America. It's so overwhelming. And big and as a non-American, you feel like a tiny part of it, but I think it will be a lot of fun and yeah, just book stuff, book people, book groupings is always good. It's always turns out well. I think just because everybody's a reader and readers are good people. So it will be fun. I'll be doing some filming with my publisher, Simon & Schuster, which will be interesting. Because authors are not actors, authors are not comedians. So we we'll do our best. We'll we'll we'll do our best, but don't have our expectations. um and then thrill the first itself. Super cool. Never been. I think it's a big one as well. Big big festival, big festival. I'm one of those people who's when I go to a festival like that, I retreat constantly. I'll do an hour of meeting readers, love it, love signing books, love talking to readers, and then I withdraw like the hermit that I am back into my hotel room and just decompress for a while. And then I go back out and I do another hour and then I come back again. And I think a lot of authors secretly or not secretly do the same thing just because it's too much otherwise. We're used to spending all of our time on our own with like a dog under a desk. Not under the desk with the dog, but like for me, I'm above the desk. That sounds wrong too. I'm sitting at the desk, but the dog is underneath the desk. Yeah. But it's this is this time of year. And then I've got a few weeks and then I've got Harrogate, which is one of my favorites as well because it's just so pleasant and outdoorsy. There's a breeze. It's in tents. It's intense as in it's intense, but it's also in tents as in they put up tents. I'm not good at enunciating this. It's in tents, but it's also intense. And m yeah, I get to not only meet readers again and like book people, but also writers that I'm in awe of that's super nice. Like just recently in Montreal I've been listening to writers like Nita Prose and Shari Lapena and just learning, just learning, just like being a sponge sat at the back of the auditorium, just learning and I do enjoy that. I do enjoy that. I do enjoy that. It's we enjoy being a writer. I wasn't a writer, like a professional writer, paid writer until I was 40. Before then I had normal jobs. Those jobs weren't weird. Like there's a there's just things you do, but being a writer is it's a weird job and to keep your mind on the level and for it not to all feel just too abstract and odd, the festivals are quite anchoring. They make it all feel very, very real and very worthwhile. So yeah, I do enjoy them. And then I also very much I confess, enjoy the end of them because then I am literally withdrawing like a hermit crab into my shell and from that place will come the next book, written this autumn, the very best of all the seasons. This has been fun. Thank you for listening. I will be back with you again very soon.