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Looking forward to speaking for an hour or so at my meet-the-author event at Oldham Coliseum tomorrow. I hope my voice holds out for that long, as I don't use it very often. I've thoroughly prepared my speech and am not too nervous ... yet. I'll be the only author talking at tomorrow's event, as far as I'm aware.

My talk will be about my nine books and life as a full-time indie author, although I'll be concentrating on my non-fiction book, Living with Postcards, as the organiser requested.

Living with Postcards

I'm bringing about 50 of my 2,000 postcards along to illustrate the talk. I could have put together a powerpoint presentation, but I reckon holding the actual postcards will be more satisfying for the audience, and feel less formal. I'll be handing out my own book promotion postcards too, whether the audience wants them or not, ha! They can turn them into paper airplanes and launch them at me if they get bored.

This'll be the second meet-the-author event I've spoken at in the past six months. Maybe that's why I'm not too nervous, although my first talk was only 15 minutes long, and there were four other authors speaking then. Wish me luck.

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My meet-the-author event at Oldham Coliseum on 24th January went even better than I'd hoped. There were about fifteen Full Circle members in the audience, which was a perfect number, as I wanted my talk to be informal. I was less nervous than I'd expected to be, probably because I'm passionate about writing and talk about books every chance I get. Selling a few of my signed books was a bonus.

Most of the photographs of the event were taken by Jenny, one of the organisers, shortly after my hour-long talk. I gave my talk next to a small table but sat with the audience for the group photos. I notice I'm wearing the same outfit I wore for another meet-the-author event at Oldham Library in November. I really must wear something different if I'm ever asked to give another talk about my books. People will think I only own one set of clothes, which is far from the truth.

Thanks to Rose Sergent at Oldham Coliseum for organising today's event. I really enjoyed myself and would happily have talked for two hours, not just the one hour I'd been allocated. It's now back to writing book ten for me, the third book in The Hostile series.

Joy Mutter