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On Monday 12th September I attended Carrie Hope Fletcher's book signing for her fiction book On The Other Side at the Glee Club in Birmingham. This is the second time I have met Carrie and once again she was an absolute pleasure to listen too.
I attended this event on my own, and I must stay that I think the Glee Club and the Waterstones team planned and hosted the event so well considering there was 350 people that turned up to this event and each one of those people had bought a ticket and a book. We were seated quite early as doors opened at 6 and I was in a seat by 6:30 with the event starting at 7, however there were people who turned up 10 minutes before the event and had to stand up because of all the seats that were taken which gives you an idea of how many people attended this event.
Before the signing of the actual books, there was a 40 minute question and answer session with a representative from Waterstones asking Carrie questions about her book, being in Chitty and her life in general. I thought this was done really well and I liked the fact that the guy who sat down to ask her questions had actually read and really enjoyed her book, so he asked interesting questions. I love the way Carrie thinks and how her brain works I could sit and listen to her all day because I think she's so interesting and has such a creative outlook on life. She spoke about how she came up with the idea for her book, which was on tour during War of the Worlds in a dream state. Her favourite character which is Sonny Shine. She also gave an explanation about some of the magical realism aspects explaining that she was once told that in musicals people sing because it is the only way they can portray their emotions because simple words are not enough and this applies to the magical realism aspects of her book as these actions were the best ways to portray the characters emotions. After the representative asked their questions it was open to the audience which was an array of different questions.
After a 10 minute break it was time for the signing part of the event and I must praise the Waterstone people for how they organised this which they did by getting people up row by row which is a very good way of avoiding a crush of 350 people all want books signed. I waited about an hour to get my book signed which I didn't mind and when I finally did Carrie was so lovely to talk to as always and I shall be going to her events again because she's just a pleasure to meet and listen too. Carrie has done a vlog on her channel about the signing which I shall link here and my friend sent me a screenshot of me in the video which I am chuffed about.
I urge people to read this book as it is just such a lovely heart warming story about a women named Evie Snow who wants to get into heaven but she can't because her soul is too heavy so then we see her past and her trying to reveal these secrets to her loved ones so she can do this. There is romance, heart break and magic as well as an amazingly strong female lead character. Here is a link to buy the book on the Waterstones website.
I want to say a massive thank you to Carrie herself, Waterstones and The Glee Club in Birmingham for putting on such a lovely event that I thoroughly enjoyed. I hope you enjoyed this blog post, until next time.
Stacey
On Monday 12th September I attended Carrie Hope Fletcher's book signing for her fiction book On The Other Side at the Glee Club in Birmingham. This is the second time I have met Carrie and once again she was an absolute pleasure to listen too.
I attended this event on my own, and I must stay that I think the Glee Club and the Waterstones team planned and hosted the event so well considering there was 350 people that turned up to this event and each one of those people had bought a ticket and a book. We were seated quite early as doors opened at 6 and I was in a seat by 6:30 with the event starting at 7, however there were people who turned up 10 minutes before the event and had to stand up because of all the seats that were taken which gives you an idea of how many people attended this event.
Before the signing of the actual books, there was a 40 minute question and answer session with a representative from Waterstones asking Carrie questions about her book, being in Chitty and her life in general. I thought this was done really well and I liked the fact that the guy who sat down to ask her questions had actually read and really enjoyed her book, so he asked interesting questions. I love the way Carrie thinks and how her brain works I could sit and listen to her all day because I think she's so interesting and has such a creative outlook on life. She spoke about how she came up with the idea for her book, which was on tour during War of the Worlds in a dream state. Her favourite character which is Sonny Shine. She also gave an explanation about some of the magical realism aspects explaining that she was once told that in musicals people sing because it is the only way they can portray their emotions because simple words are not enough and this applies to the magical realism aspects of her book as these actions were the best ways to portray the characters emotions. After the representative asked their questions it was open to the audience which was an array of different questions.
After a 10 minute break it was time for the signing part of the event and I must praise the Waterstone people for how they organised this which they did by getting people up row by row which is a very good way of avoiding a crush of 350 people all want books signed. I waited about an hour to get my book signed which I didn't mind and when I finally did Carrie was so lovely to talk to as always and I shall be going to her events again because she's just a pleasure to meet and listen too. Carrie has done a vlog on her channel about the signing which I shall link here and my friend sent me a screenshot of me in the video which I am chuffed about.
I urge people to read this book as it is just such a lovely heart warming story about a women named Evie Snow who wants to get into heaven but she can't because her soul is too heavy so then we see her past and her trying to reveal these secrets to her loved ones so she can do this. There is romance, heart break and magic as well as an amazingly strong female lead character. Here is a link to buy the book on the Waterstones website.
I want to say a massive thank you to Carrie herself, Waterstones and The Glee Club in Birmingham for putting on such a lovely event that I thoroughly enjoyed. I hope you enjoyed this blog post, until next time.
Stacey
I was also there! I am glad you enjoyed it as i also did! :)
ReplyDeleteIt was the best :)
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