There are only a few spaces for this but it is going to be a magnificent exclusive event – never to be forgotten. Please come and support the support act too!! Places can be reserved via the Ubuprojex website (right-click to open in a new window)
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Book Launch – 5th May!!
Please join me! Live performance, both to tracks and live musicians, plus the usual banter and bluster.
So, I’ve finally reached the finishing line. I set out to make this book so much more than the last – both with quantity and personalised touches – and I became quite determined not to cut any corners… to the point where I drove myself quite dotty editing, proofreading and redrawing illustrations that I wasn’t 100% happy with.
Much of it was written in Coffee Republic (they make a wonderful cappuccino) and they always cheered me up when I was flagging, so I was THRILLED when they offered me the upstairs to launch the book. It’ll be like home away from home. Honestly, I spend so much time there that even the Google Earth car captured me sitting by the window with my notepad and mug! I just need some people there to help me send the book on its way… please come!
If not, I shall see you at the Festival with my mini-amp and my bowler hat.
(Details of how to purchase the book online, very soon)
Kiersty x
Da-Dah!
All done. The proof copies are apparently winging their way over my way right now and I am completely anticipatious and trembley-like. Watch this space. Keep everything crossed. Despite last-minute hiccups of having to reset all the illustrations, reconfigure the Table of Contents and finding (gasp!) an ‘it’s’ that should have been ‘its’ in the last 24 hours before it went to print, I’m still pretty much bang on schedule. I’m hoping it’s going to be the best one yet. Watch out for much whooping and over excitement before the end of the week!
Buy The Books!
Little White Lies, The Poet Busker Collection, Walking on Chalk & The Poet Busker CD are all detailed below. All orders will be despatched first class/airmail.
£7.50 (+ £1.50 UK Postage or £2.50 Intl Postage)
If you would like to purchase, please hit the PayPal button above and enter the correct amount, along with your address details and you will be sent it by return. All purchases will have a few postcards added but if you would like a whole set, please add £1 to your final total. Thank you!
£5.00 (+ £1.50 UK Postage or £2.50 Intl Postage)
If you would like to purchase, please hit the PayPal button above and enter the correct amount, along with your address details and you will be sent it by return. All purchases will have a few postcards added but if you would like a whole set, please add £1 to your final total. Thank you!
£4.00 (+ £1.50 UK Postage or £2.50 Intl Postage)
If you would like to purchase, please hit the PayPal button above and enter the correct amount, along with your address details and you will be sent it by return. All purchases will have a few postcards added but if you would like a whole set, please add £1 to your final total. Thank you!
£6.29 (+ £1.50 UK Postage or £2.50 Intl Postage)
If you would like to purchase, please hit the PayPal button above and enter the correct amount, along with your address details and you will be sent it by return. All purchases will have a few postcards added but if you would like a whole set, please add £1 to your final total. Thank you!
It’s Here!!!!
I have finished. Finally. Having taken a challenge from a fellow poet three months ago, that I would publish my collection by August, I have been busy collecting it all together and putting it into a presentation that would excite me and make me really want to show everyone else it too. So here it is.
I can honestly say that it is one of the things I am most proud of ever.
I’ll be doing a book launch locally and I have already sorted out the marketing for the local area (an announcement about that very soon)… dammit, it’s all very exciting.
But anyway, here it is… my book of poetry…
THE POET BUSKER BY KIERSTY BOON (click on this title for the Lulu Link if you want a proper shufty and an itsy bitsy preview)
and this is what it looks like if you want a preview of the preview, ha!
Ohhhhhh, I hope you like it. Come to the book launch? I shall tell you when and where next week. Oh! and I’ll be wearing the t-shirt, haha.
Kiersty x
“…Rite of Passage”
Is the phrase I shall remember most from the book signing. I was sat alone, wishing people would stop staring at me like I had sprouted gargoyles out of each nostril, when my brother turned up from nowhere and told me ‘Relax. Think of it as a Rite of Passage.’
The whole day was terrifying and exhilarating in equal proportions. I almost wanted to giggle at people who I didn’t know, clutching my book and asking me to sign it … I mean… really? Me?
Waterstones was a huge disappointment. Their in-store publicity was nil so luckily I had come forearmed with some leaflets which told people what my book was about to tempt them to buy it. However, it was a massive thrill to see this…
Then my brother told me about this…
Unfortunately the whole thing was pretty much overcast by me having full blown flu and practically having to crawl home and fall into bed the second I could. There were plenty of moments that I was sat there doing nothing but my youngest daughter kept running up to keep me amused with one of her curious questions, like ‘when you die do you want a cardboard coffin with pictures of flowers on?’ “Yes, please.”
Thank you to all the people who have given me such wonderful feedback on the book. I have had several people asking for the sequel and I promise I shall get it out of my head and onto something more suitable like paper or disc. The story is all mapped out and I will get my fingers tapping as soon as I have a spare moment.
The next time I venture out, it will be to do some poetry busking at the Brighton Festival ’09. See you there, I hope.
Book Signing
My book signing has been confirmed for Waterstones, at the Clock Tower branch in Brighton, on 7th March.
Hmmmm, now I need to practice my signature. It is a very flowery signature because Boon is such a short surname, I tried to compensate with a great big bulbous B that gives a cuddle to the last letters of my first name. It’s so good to be using the surname Boon again though… it is a very fine surname. Maybe I should buy a proper pen instead of my 100 for £1 offer box from Tesco’s? What on earth shall I wear?
Oh, plenty of time to sort that out. Hopefully I will see you there. Oh! and hopefully you will buy a copy of the book!
(insert cheesey grin and puppy dog eyes, here)
