Excitement - Part 2!!!!!

I may have mentioned a time or ten that I really like reading, so imagine my joy when I got the chance to go along to Random House (the publishing Company) to meet Lisa Jewell, author of Ralph’s Party and One Hit Wonder to discuss her new book ‘After the Party’!!!!  Eeekkkk!  The screams and excitement could be heard along my whole street and probably through the internet!! 

So yesterday was the big day and I booked myself a whole afternoon off work and took a trip to London, only stopping to fortify myself with a Krispy Kreme or two!!!  Luckily for me I have a very accommodating Brother and Sister in Law that live in the City and don’t mind lending me their Couch!  After a very traumatic trip on the bus (I don’t like mixing with the Common folk ;-) I made it to Random House!! 

I was going to try and take some pictures of the building but the Street was full of Uber cool London types making their way to bars or home and I already looked like a nervous geek so thought I wouldn’t draw even more attention to myself!!! As soon as you are buzzed in to the building you are overwhelmed (in a very good way) by books and posters for books which sends a geek like me into a complete tizzy....it’s very hard to be cool when you are so nervous and excited about something all at the same time!

Being the OCD type that I am, I was there massively early but everyone was so lovely and delightful to me that I just wanted to hug them all.  Having a peek around at everything I saw this table and I knew then and there that they were definitely my kinda people:

There were some other delightful guests there, fellow bloggers (which was very cool but slightly intimidating too) who I’d like to introduce you too:

Lisa from All the Wright Stuff

Cate over at Bitch Buzz

Hannah at Why Miss Jones

Ronko from The Musings of Ondo Lady

Efe at Efe Fabulous

Go over and check out their blogs because they are a whole bunch of fabulous and we can never have too many friends!!!

It’s kinda hard to describe how the evening went but the best I can do is that it was part conference, part self help group and part sitting around with friends drinking wine, eating nibbles and talking about writing, but mainly a whole bunch of fun!  We did almost a group interview with Lisa about writing and her books which I will post tomorrow when I also have a copy of ‘After the Party’ to give away !!  This is a pic of Lisa and I:

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole night (as you can probably tell) but it some ways I felt like a bit of a fraud.  All the lovely bloggers above and in fact most of the people in the room consider themselves writers but I don’t view myself as a writer at all.  I guess some of that may be self doubt but are my ramblings to be classed as proper writing? I’m not really sure!  Also I believe that most of the lovelies from last night would also like to be published Authors but I honestly don’t think I have a book in me....apart from ‘Confessions of a HR Officer’ of course!!!!

As we were saying our goodbyes and leaving, we all got given a goody bag which had this in:

Allow me one excited scream please.......aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhh!!  Not only did I have an awesome night but I also got a shed load of free books!  I am without a doubt one of the happiest, luckiest people in the world today!!

Make sure that you come back tomorrow to read all about my chat with Lisa and a chance to win your own copy of ‘After the Party’ courtesy of Random House!!!!!