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Presentation in Librería Gil
Dec. 12th, 2008 01:05 pmLast night I arrived in Santander and had a presentation of my new poetry book DESAYUNO EN LA CAMA in Librería Gil. You can't quite see from the glare, but they made a lovely front window display with copies of the book and a poster announcing the event.
We had a very nice turnout (evidently, what I as a wimpy Madrileño considered unpleasant weather was nothing for the stalwart Santanderinos) and a very mixed turnout: poetry afficionados, gay readers, a handful of people from the Santander Science Fiction group, etc. Gender breakdown was maybe one third women, which was an interesting change from other recent events I've done for this or other gay books.
Regino Mateo presented me and the book, and then I spoke for a bit and read a few poems and then spoke some more.
We had some dialogue, afterward, although I think people were embarrassed to ask questions in public.
We wound up taking so long, though, that I didn't make it to the TV interview I was supposed to do after (oops!) so we retired to a bar around the corner for more conversation, and then to a restaurant nearby.
Not sure exactly how many books were sold, the bookstore told me they'd been selling some from before the event, as well, to people who couldn't make it last night (evidently there were 5 other readings at the same time, so the literary public was very split up).
Librería Gil is very well-known in the field of children's books (I'd known about them for years even though this is my first visit to Santander) so I had brought some of my kidzbooks for them as well, and between what they had on hand and what I brought those sold nicely as well ('tis the gift giving season and all).
A lovely event.
Right now, I've had to check out of the hotel, but I'm sitting in the cafeteria looking out at the Cantabrian Sea... and, alas, I'm going to have to start working.
I managed to translate close to 2000 words on the train before my battery collapsed, and I switched to editing some printouts I'd brought with me, and then starting to read a Sharon Shinn novel (MYSTIC AND RIDER) that a friend sent me recently (thanks, Mei!).
We had a very nice turnout (evidently, what I as a wimpy Madrileño considered unpleasant weather was nothing for the stalwart Santanderinos) and a very mixed turnout: poetry afficionados, gay readers, a handful of people from the Santander Science Fiction group, etc. Gender breakdown was maybe one third women, which was an interesting change from other recent events I've done for this or other gay books.
Regino Mateo presented me and the book, and then I spoke for a bit and read a few poems and then spoke some more.
We had some dialogue, afterward, although I think people were embarrassed to ask questions in public.
We wound up taking so long, though, that I didn't make it to the TV interview I was supposed to do after (oops!) so we retired to a bar around the corner for more conversation, and then to a restaurant nearby.
Not sure exactly how many books were sold, the bookstore told me they'd been selling some from before the event, as well, to people who couldn't make it last night (evidently there were 5 other readings at the same time, so the literary public was very split up).
Librería Gil is very well-known in the field of children's books (I'd known about them for years even though this is my first visit to Santander) so I had brought some of my kidzbooks for them as well, and between what they had on hand and what I brought those sold nicely as well ('tis the gift giving season and all).
A lovely event.
Right now, I've had to check out of the hotel, but I'm sitting in the cafeteria looking out at the Cantabrian Sea... and, alas, I'm going to have to start working.
I managed to translate close to 2000 words on the train before my battery collapsed, and I switched to editing some printouts I'd brought with me, and then starting to read a Sharon Shinn novel (MYSTIC AND RIDER) that a friend sent me recently (thanks, Mei!).
