It's 3 weeks until the book hits the shelves.
Waterstones sold out of their 1,000 signed copies, so I really need to actually sign them. Which is why I took a quick trip to CPI at their facility in Ebbsfleet just outside London. A vast number of books are printed here - including those of many very famous authors. There's heavy security because some of these novels are in great demand and it's important that copies don't escape early!
From the signing room you can see the whole factory floor - a lot of it automated but still with quite a few people in the mix. It was, sadly, mostly turned off while I was there. For maintainance and for repairs.
They printed off this nice poster for me, and I got to take it home with me at the end of the day.
The pile of books on the big table included the 1,000 for the Waterstones signed edition, and a block destined for various independent bookshops across the country.
And for a Celyn update - still in hospital, still not well (obviously).
She's now had a PET scan and is still radioactive as I sit by her typing this blog post. She had a radioactive market injected into her blood, which then generated antimatter (positrons), which then annihilated with electrons and generated pairs of photons (gamma rays) that were used to image her interior with the hope of finding out what's wrong with her.
We're waiting on the results.
I arrived here looking for more! I just finished the Book of the Ancestor trilogy. Nona was a character who I bonded with, understood, and now I’m mourning no longer spending my days with her. It’s funny how a fiction book can mirror who I was as a child even set in a world as unsettling as Abeth. Thank you for bringing these sisters to life and keeping their world unadulterated with men and romances. I loved that it was more about the power each girl held, the bonds they formed and watching all the pieces fall together in the right places so that that the future for all could improve. I am a mother who came through a difficult upbringing, one I likened to war inside a home, and as an adult, I watched my child walk a line between life and death as he fought a very rare misunderstood medical condition that was found after I ran over him with a vehicle. Let’s just say I’ve known pain and loneliness and “demons”. Doctors have no explanation for how my son lived. I called it “magic”. The answers lie in the “Miracles around every corner” and the “spirit voices” that will guide you along the way. Some call it God, others call them spirit guides, and I call it a mother’s intuition. Just know when a loved one especially a child, is sick. You will be sent what is needed, just believe, staying open to listening and learning. May all be well and good and blessed.
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