Today is a quiet day at Ignite Villas. We’re catching up on housework and watching greenfinch squabbling at the bird feeder. It’s just what the doctor ordered after a busy weekend at Wolves Lit Fest, and we’re all for following doctor’s orders.
Friday at the festival was spent in the Art Gallery, at a publishers’ fair – with several local publishers selling their wares, which always means we’re going to come home with books we didn’t own at the start of the day. Them’s the breaks! We also took part in a discussion panel alongside Jane Commane (Nine Arches Press), Garrie Fletcher (Floodgate Press), and Marcia Spence (MM Publishing) explaining what it is each of us do, why we do it – a question we ask ourselves three or four times a day – and the challenges small publishers face right now. Thanks to everyone who came along, listened, and asked questions during the Q&A at the end. And to the folk who came down to the publishers’ fair afterwards and bought books!
The next day we were back at Wolves Lit Fest, interviewing our author Glyn Brown about her memoir Dancing Barefoot – a brilliant book which redraws the boundaries of the genre. Again, thanks to everyone who came along. We hope you’re enjoying your copies of her book. If you missed out on getting one on the day, they’re available via our online shop. There are also a few signed copies at Waterstones in Wolverhampton city centre – and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support of the region’s publishers and authors.
This Saturday we’ll be at Brierley Hill Library from 10am, celebrating the Black Country with a host of authors and writers from our neck of the post-industrial woods. See you there – if we’ve managed to tear ourselves away from watching greenfinch.
