IF you love books, you love Waterstone's, and I've spent many happy hours browsing at my local East Grinstead branch.
I once spent a glorious £350 there, after I won book vouchers in a poetry competition and I was like a kid in a sweetshop trying to decide which books I was going to adopt and take home with me.
But before I embarked, somewhat accidentally, on authorship as opposed to journalism, I never once imagined I would one day see one of my own books in our local branch...
So I was especially thrilled to pop in recently and see all three of my Pirate Gran series featured in a table display...and - if you look very carefully - two shelves below the Hungry Caterpillar, another of my favourite books, at the back of the shop.
All the titles went into reprint ahead of the stage show...and I am pinching myself just in case I discover that Life has been confusing me with someone else after all!
But in the meantime I'm as grateful as I am surprised...which in both instances is VERY!
I once spent a glorious £350 there, after I won book vouchers in a poetry competition and I was like a kid in a sweetshop trying to decide which books I was going to adopt and take home with me.
But before I embarked, somewhat accidentally, on authorship as opposed to journalism, I never once imagined I would one day see one of my own books in our local branch...
So I was especially thrilled to pop in recently and see all three of my Pirate Gran series featured in a table display...and - if you look very carefully - two shelves below the Hungry Caterpillar, another of my favourite books, at the back of the shop.
All the titles went into reprint ahead of the stage show...and I am pinching myself just in case I discover that Life has been confusing me with someone else after all!
But in the meantime I'm as grateful as I am surprised...which in both instances is VERY!