I had a wonderful evening at Off the Shelf Bookshop in Geneva, this my very first reading and signing. I love this place with its wooden floors and bookcases; it is large enough to have a good variety of carefully selected books and small enough for the book-lover to feel right at home in.

I was very shocked and humbled by the number of people who came. It was a very emotional experience seeing people holding my book, for the very first time. Lindiwe and Ian are now public property! What will be made of them, of their story? I feel a bit like a mother hen.

The signing was awkward initially for me...my author signature, well, to quote someone in the bookshop, was just too plain, it needed flourish! By the end of the evening I do believe it had acquired some loops and twirls!

I read the first chapter with a thumping heart and here's the thing...as I read I kept thinking, they're listening to this story, my story, now theirs. Magic!

The conversation we had afterwards was another emotional rite of passage...the questions that were asked about the characters and the story brought me right back to over two years ago when a phone conversation lit the spark for the story and the tingling excitement of my hands on the keyboard when I wrote those very first words.

Pictures and video of the evening can be found on my website



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