Presenting a new feature... I Need to Get Out More #1

Well, it's been a while since I've introduced a new feature and then not really followed it up much, so here's my latest attempt. And here's the rather muddled thought process behind it....

Well, you may or may not know that I work from home. This mainly involves staying at home a lot. And occasionally leaving home to drop off and retrieve children from schooling places. But generally not venturing much from the confines of Hammersmith. On occasions, I do get the opportunity to leave my flat and mingle with the outside people. And if I'm really, really lucky, my husband might also have the evening off so he can babysit, and it is for these infrequent but lovely times that I've have decided to devote said new feature.

Every time I've been to a book-related event, I always, think 'oh I must do a write up thing about that' but most of the time this never happens. So this is really my way of forcing myself to do write ups.

BUT THERE'S MORE...

A place. Not a million miles away from my front door. 

I have also been thinking about starting a feature to do with places. Yes, that does sound very vague. Let me elaborate slightly. Whenever I start writing something new, or an idea starts to form in my noggin, a lot of the time this is started by visiting a place or remembering  a place. It could be somewhere on my doorstep or somewhere I been to in the past. (I was trying really hard to write this without sounding completely wanky but I'm failing miserably). Ok, I just want to write stuff about writing places because they mean a lot to me. There. Said it. So I've decided to combine the two ideas and create one shiny new feature out of them.

So in my first post (haven't actually written it yet but ho hum) I'm going to be telling you about this great event I went to last week - Young Adult Fiction: Coming Out of the Closet - presented by Booktrust. James Dawson, Hayley Long and Emily Thomas from Hot Key, amongst others, talked about why there were so few LGBT character in UKYA and what can be done about this.

So look forward to that first write up. It will happen, I promise...