Nadia’s book, The Djinn Hunters, has officially been launched!
Photo of a poetry book lying on a wooden table. Next to this is a metal-and-glass lantern with a lit candle inside it.
The turn-out was excellent, and a lot of our friends and Nadia’s colleagues attended.
Nadia was thrilled about it :)
Photo of a woman standing in an event space. The woman has long black hair and is smiling at the camera. She is wearing wearing a blue dress; black jumper; and round, gold coloured jewellery.
Instead of the speeches and readings you’d see at a typical book launch, in this one the publisher and editor (Jessica Wilkinson) asked Nadia and Will — the two authors whose books she was launching — a bunch of insightful questions. She also got them to read some of their poems that helped illustrate their answers. It was good format and it worked really well.
Photo of two people seated on wicker chairs in an event space. The man on the left is speaking into a wireless microphone that he is holding in one hand, while in the other hand he holds a folded-over book. The woman on the right is looking at the speaker. In her lap she has a book with several sticky-notes sticking out of it.
A whole bunch of people bought Nadia’s book.
Photo of two piles of books lying on a table, with a portable payment card reader and a tumbler of lemon, lime, and bitters lying next to the books.
And there was a long line of people who wanted her to sign their copy :)
Photo of a woman sitting in a wicker chair and leaning over to sign her name in a book that she is holding open on top of a table next to the chair. A small lamp shines a pool of light over the table top.
All told it was a fantastic evening, and then a bunch of us made our way to the pub down the street to have dinner :)