Sometimes promo events just go really well. It’s the combination of a great audience, who are attentive and excited in equal measure, a prepared author (once he or she has escaped from the dark dank monster caves), and a well organized maestro to put it all together. And today I got lucky, the planets were aligned – and Hadleigh High School in Suffolk are my new heroes!
I had the whole Year 7, 8 and 9 – all of whom were superb. They got into the spirit of the event and bought lots of books, which is always nice! Three cheers goes to the School Librarian, Mr Martin, who organized everything perfectly and looked after his escapee author with food and plenty of coffee – which is always welcome!
It was also refreshing to see great innovations being tested in the library environment. Hadleigh School Library was not only promoting audio books, but Mr Martin had taken the step to buy cool MP3 players so the students can borrow the audio book and listen to them on their way home, in lessons (oops, maybe not!) and during their breaks. It was terrific to see technology being embraced by a library rather than feared!
I certainly look forward to visiting Hadleigh again, plus it gives me an excuse for a blatant plug! HERO.COM: RISE OF THE HEROES and VILLAIN.NET: COUNCIL OF EVIL are now available as audio books.
They will be hitting the usual stores soon, but in the meantime, if you prefer audio books, you can buy them here:
And don’t forget to check out the free audio sample of COUNCIL OF EVIL!
12/05/2009 at 10:16 am Permalink
We’ve got that knackered old record player Ali found at the back of the cave – do the audio books come on vinyl?
12/05/2009 at 2:29 pm Permalink
They look great! Congrats.