The Local Author Market at Burton Library (South Aust) was held last weekend.
This was their first author event, and the second library author event I’ve attended in the past three months. I caught up with fellow indie authors (of varied genres) who were quite happy for me to film them. Thank you!
Here’s the result – my event post for the day.
I met new readers (and got this feedback on the Saturday from one. Thank you, Julie. This made my day. And she brought me a present. More on that in the second post-event video below.)
The Salisbury Library Service staff at the Burton library were great (as usual). And we chatted about the possibilty of future author events… so watch this space. There was even a roaming coffee cart supplying free coffee and tea, and delivered them to our tables. (Nice touch.)
After-event Day one video: (the bad…)
Fortunately, they also iced coffee and iced chocolate as, instead of the early autumn expected temperatures of the low twenties (degrees Celcius), Adelaide was sweltering through a heatwave (which lasted several days). At 8.00am it had already passed 30 DegC, and only got worse as we ventured down the hill to the Adelaide Plains. By the time we were packing up the car, it was 42 degrees! Ugh. I never do well in the heat; the dust sets off my allergies and asthma, and the heat triggers fibromyalgia pain and migraines. My mental health takes a beating.. I’m always a wreck for days (to a week) after.
After event Day two video: the good stuff
It wasn’t all doom and gloom though. I just need to push through the post-event blurgh… and conentrate on the good stuff.
Now I just have to get through the current building project and I’ll be ready for the next event.