Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

On Tuesday there was a post to rec.arts.mystery (henceforth referred to as RAM) from Fidelis Morgan, an author of some excellent historical mysteries. She was going to be speaking at an event on Wednesday evening at the Battersea Arts Centre as part of what I found out was the SW11 Literary Festival. "Oooh!" I thought, "That sounds fun!" You see, Fidelis is an actress and when she does a book reading, she acts out all the parts, really bringing the books to life. I HAVE to save up and buy a cassette player so I can get the tapes of her earlier books:- I campaigned hard for them and when they finally brought the tapes out, it was after I'd got the new car that didn't have a tape deck. Bah! Anyway, knowing that Fidelis has lost her British publisher and that this will be the last time she'll be actively promoting this series, I was determined to go and show some moral support. Appearing with Fidelis would be Sarah Dunant and Sarah Waters, two authors I've not read but heard good things about so it sounded like a good evening.

( The evening )

I do recommend Fidelis's books if you like a good bawdy crime novel :) The novels are, in order, "Unnatural Fire", "The Rival Queens", "The Ambitious Stepmother" (which I'm reading and it's good), these are all in paperback. "Fortune's Slave" is the most recent and is in hardback, though as I've mentioned, the PB comes out on the really stupid date of Dec. 27th. Go and buy 2! They're gonna be out of print soon, dammit.

....I spent the whole of yesterday totally and utterly convinced it was a Friday.

*sighs*