It’s
coming up to festival time – now you might be thinking music festivals, beer
festivals, flower festivals but I’m thinking book festivals and one in
particular - the one taking place in Edinburgh this month!
In August, something very special happens in Scotland’s Capital and that would be
The Edinburgh Fringe, The Edinburgh Festival, The Edinburgh Tattoo and The
Edinburgh Book Festival.
Edinburgh
is my favourite city in the whole world and it’s where my eldest son lives and
my middle son goes to university. It’s where I browse on George Street, go shopping
on Princes Street and get my hair done on Fredrick Street. Its museums and art
galleries are amazing and its restaurants are fantastic. – It’s where I set my
book ‘Reaching for the Stars’ - and it’s a city close to my heart. Now there
are those who can get to Edinburgh and those who can’t. Maybe you live too far
away. Maybe you just can’t afford it. Don’t despair.
Indie Ebook Review is bringing
Edinburgh to you via the Edinburgh Ebook Festival!
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| Edinburgh Castle (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) |
Please note this is an independent, virtual festival, with
no ties or association to the commercial entity that is the Edinburgh Book
Festival.
The inaugural Edinburgh Ebook Festival, in which I have been
invited to take part this year, runs online and concurrently with the ‘real’
thing from August 11th to 27th 2012.
The Edinburgh Ebook Festival showcases some of the best of
indie e-book writers around. The festival seeks to introduce you to writers,
publishers, and to explore the whole world of epublishing from a new and
distinctly Scottish perspective.
There will be around 40 featured and contributing writers
and a total of around 100 specific ‘events’ including reviews, short stories, poems,
features on all aspects of epublishing, writers comments and an insight into
who is who and what is what!
The official ‘rolling’ launch of this website will happen at
10am on Friday 3rd August.
From then till the opening event on 11th August, there will
be content added to the site by the organisers, who will be getting it
shipshape and ready for you to enjoy, highlighting features of what’s to come
and how to get the most from this unique festival.
It’s the Edinburgh Festival that you can attend without ever
leaving home!
We will all look forward to seeing you ‘virtually’ in the
weeks to come. Bookmark the website and Facebook Page and tell your friends. Everyone
is welcome and everything is FREE. All it will take is some of your time and we
hope to offer you enough interest to have you coming back every day right up
until the close on 27th August.
See you at the Festival - virtually!
#edebookfest
12 comments:
Can't tell you how thrilled I am for you. Well done!
Yay! Well done, Janice! Well indeed see you there! :) xx
It's great, isn't it Janice. I'll see you there. Are we the only two from lahe?
See you and Chris there... virtually this time but some day, we'll get together in person.
It's going to be a party - with Janice and Chris together the virtual world won't know what's hit them! Brilliant ladies - it's going to be a big success, I can feel it!
It's exciting to be involved in this very first e-boook festival- a leap into the unknown!
It is an exciting event - as of course anything to do with Edinburgh is exciting!
Thank you Kit (my lovely Editor) and Sheryl (my lovely friend).
Chris - we are the only writers involved from Loveahappyending.com but I'm sure there are more writers from our Writer Scotland group involved with The Edinburgh Ebook Festival.
I love the tag - See you at the Festival - virtually!
Melanie, As it's virtual - and you are connected to Scotland - you can attend next year with your soon to be released debut. Yay!
Thank you Linn - I fear Chris and I have a reputaion for raucousness - and it's true of course!
Hi Myra - fellow Scottish author! It's an exciting time for all of us and who knowns where it could lead in the future - Edinburgh perhaps? Te-he!!
Hi Ladies, such a great idea and linked to one of the greatest cities in the world. (Me, biased?)
My forthcoming novel and my WIP are both set in Ednburgh and Fife, so hopefully I can get even more involved next year!
See you there
Ali B
Hi Janice .. what a lovely idea - hope it's fun. Great you know the city so well ... I was up last week - but didn't get to Edinburgh ... another day.
Fabulous that you can see your sons while you're there ...
I'll try and keep up ... cheers Hilary
I would love to come...just so I could come to Scotland...it's on my bucket list. Maybe after the kids are in college, if I'm not in the poor house. :)
Ali - Yay, I'll 'see' you there and I can't wait to read your books set in Scotland!
Hi Hilary - it's a shame you were in Scotland and didn't get to see Edinburgh - but it is a big country and there is so much to see. Next time perhaps? Thanks for your lovely comment.
Elizabeth - you will be able to attend virtually this year and hopfully get to see 'Auld Reekie' for yourself some day soon - but it will be worth the wait and the journey. Thanks for your lovely comment.
Janice xxx
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