From Schools to Mining Museums – Readings and Talks

It’s been a good first couple of months since The Knitter was published. Frustrating because working full time and trying to sell a book don’t sit well together. I’ll have to work on that one! Really motivating and gratifying at the same time, after some really positive early feedback. It really is an incredible feeling – getting up there to being a real “Archie Gemmill Moment” – when you receive that very  first unsolicited  really positive feedback from someone outside your immediate circle. That’s when you finally realise that maybe – just maybe – the book that you spent years shaping and changing and fretting over every word and phrase might actually hit a chord with a few other people too.

Some of the things that have worked well so far, even with limited time, include:

Probably more than anything else, the responses that have given me the most pleasure, and the biggest boost, are those some of the old faces from Calderbank who have contacted me after reading the book. Check out this one on the blog – getting these sorts of comments from someone who shared some of the same memories makes me think The Knitter really has been worth it.

So I’m left with the quandary of work or marketing the book. For now it’s going to be both, but watch out for some future postings for readings, I hope some more school visits, and some other events in the next few months. You can follow “TheKnitterbook” on Twitter for news and updates too (http://twitter.com/theknitterbook) .

And I’ll have to arrange a reading back in the old home village of Calderbank. It would be so good to resurrect the shared memories with the people who really know what the Knitter is all about – because they were there. And many of them are in it, whether the know it or not!