Yesterday’s Page Parlour for the Emerging Writers’ Festival went splendidly. I apologise I don’t have more photos to post than the one above, but the iphone does not like low-light settings. I can put the ‘flash’ on Hipmastatic, but it has little affect on the overall result (it’s more of a ‘glaze’ than a true ‘flash’). I had lots of questions about Miscellaneous Voices from people curious about what I thought about the direction of reading/publishing. From what I could judge, people are a little nervous. They don’t like to think that the manner and way in which they read will be taken out of their hands; that there is a land to which we are inevitably headed where e-readers are king.
Then there were others who (like me) think that some sort of equilibrium will inevitably be struck – and for the better.
Prior to that, Adam cleaned our bookshelves the other night (the photo is his).
“Look at our lovely, lovely shelves. Clean again! It makes me calmer – just the sight of that,” he sighed.
But then I discovered how he was able to clean so quickly. He just lifted the refuse and dumped it on my workdesk.
Riiiiigghhhhtttt.
