A groupie?

I’ve only been to three book signing events in my life, Terry Pratchett(I was a nervous wreck, and only stumbled out a few incoherent words), Iain Banks(whose latest book has just arrived, and his postcard written back to me I still have framed over ten years later), and Jeffrey Deaver(never read his book, but a friend was a great fan of his).

This is an embarrassingly low number given that I have around 500 books in my house, and this was after a major clear out about five years back when I got rid of six big boxes of books.

But there’s a writer whose work I follow closely, am linked as a friend on Facebook, and his blog is an RSS feed on my toolbar.  Drew Gummerson lives in the East Midlands, and is refreshingly honest about his writing life.

Does this classify myself a groupie (sounds much better than online stalker!).

His first book, The Lodger, was great, and I bought about four copies for birthdays and Christmas presents for friends.  His second book, Me and Mickie James will be released in July, and I’ve already pre-ordered.

Let’s hope that closer to the launch there are book signing events.  Meanwhile you can read his musings on the cover design here.